The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced.
—Immanuel Kant
 
All saints began their conversion by prayer, and through prayer they persevered.
—Saint John Vianney

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
—Meister Eckhart

Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.
–Jennifer Brown, Hate List

Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.
—C. S. Lewis
 
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
—Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
—Plato

This earth indeed is the very Body of God, and it is from this body that we are born, live, suffer, and resurrect to eternal life.
—Richard Rohr, O.F.M.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
—Saint Augustine
 
The first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.
—Nelson Mandela

Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don’t deserve it.
—Joyce Meyer
 
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
—Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God

Our possessions are not ours—God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in his service.
—Saint Francis de Sales
 
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
—Stephen Hawking.

When you have pity on the poor, you lend to God; and whoever gives to the least, gives to God.
—Saint Cyprian of Carthage (third century)
 
If there is no humility, love remains blocked.
—Pope Francis, Feast of the Annunciation, 2013

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
—Mortimer J. Adler
 
It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death.
–Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

There is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for his own great sacrifice of boundless charity.
—Saint Ignatius of Loyola
 
When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.
–Matthew Scully