For all the saints who from their labors rest, Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed, your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed Alleluia!

O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture Of Thee, the Living Word.

A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back.

When love speaks it is about us or we. When ego speaks it is about I or me.

It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead?

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

You fall off the horse and you get back on.

It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

I want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big.

Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.

What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their habits. But once they shift, it also is amazing how rapid the progress can be.