Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I have always believed in God.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

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.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

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

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

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.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

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

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

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.

They say miracles are past.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

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

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

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.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

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.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.