I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
Faith assuages, guides, restores.
The cure for a lonely heart is to be alone with Jesus!
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.
The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.
He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch something beyond Father Krone's dry, shaky hand, and holy water to taste like starlight.
Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.
Let the scriptures refresh you.
When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.
Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.
I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
By the time we get to church, I need church cuz I've been yelled at by everyone in the family.
I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.
I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.
On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.
Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price.
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
Now, most people who suffer realize that the Bible contains answers for their plight; they just don't know where to look.
I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.
