A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

Pray for peace for all people.

Granny was right, ' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

People hold an image of you and project that image when they feel you are changing. Disappear for a while. Break up your routines.

Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.

**** it, holler them across.

Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!

There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.

Modeling is being a ho, but making it fashion.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.