Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.

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.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.