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.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

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.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

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.

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.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

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

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

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

I have always believed in God.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.