He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
God has no religion.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
