Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
