A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list.

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

Men must know their limitations.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

Tomorrow will give us something to think about

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

I've learned to deal with stress much better now, things don't bother me in the way that they once used to.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.