I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.