Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.

As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.

Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.

My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.

I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Every ounce of information we can extract from a killer about his mind and methods gives us more ammunition to track the next one.

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.