It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.