Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

They always win who side with God.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.