“The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.”

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.

Soon after you’re dead – we’re not sure how long – but not long, you’ll be united with the most ecstatic love you’ve ever known.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately have no meaning for us.

It is good to remember that in God the is a constancy, a consistency of attitude which never changes, irrespective of what we are or how we act: he never changes in is wanting us or needing us.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.

I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!