Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

An unused life is an early death.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I love life because what more is there?

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

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

There is no wealth but life.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

The Gospel has never changed.

God always wants us to be growing.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.