Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

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.

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.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

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

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

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

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.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.