Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
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.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
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.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
God is not a diversion.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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.
