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.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

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.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

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

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

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.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

I have always believed in God.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

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

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

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

I’m a Christian by choice.

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.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

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.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

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.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

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.

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

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

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

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.