One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

God does not play dice.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

God always wants us to be growing.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

I read the Bible every day.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

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.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

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

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. ‚A miracle a minute‘ would not be a bad slogan for God.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.