Saints need sinners.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

I am a just man.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

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

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

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.

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.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.