As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

Your total intelligence knows exactly what to do, because you were made to weather the storms of life.

What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, "You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!"Falconer lifted one corner of his mouth, "Then I have succeeded, Blunt.

He gave a nod. "My future lies in your hands." "Not your future, Gerard, but the path leading to it, " she suggested

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

I think I have an awareness inside of me that we are all the same, that basically we are all part of that one heart.

You can quit anything on a Thursday.

The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.