Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.

Do not have Jesus Christ on your lips, and the world in your heart.

My dear Jesus, my Savior, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece.

It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.

Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.

I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.

It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.

It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

It is right, therefore, that we not just be called Christians, but that we actually be Christians.

Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.

The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

True humility means total dependence on God for everything.

We must never bend too much.