Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

Science is nothing but perception.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

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.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

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

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

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

My wife is already in Heaven.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

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.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.