He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
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.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.