Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?'His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son, ' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.

Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past you just know what his plans are.

Common sense often makes good law.

E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.

The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.