Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

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

Faith never makes a confession.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

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

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

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.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.