Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

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.

I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence.

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

It is either easy or impossible.