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.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
God is not a diversion.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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.
