To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Religions get lost as people do.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

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.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

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

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

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.

You just have to have a simple faith.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

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

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.