God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.

The poor should live by alms.

Your dreams are unlimited possibilities.

When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal. This is church front pew, Amen, pulpit, What my people need and the opposite of bullshit.

We all can't be friends. But we can cut each other some slack.

It can happen like that. It can build slowly. It can come like a gentle rainfall, or it can slam into you like a tsunami. You are my tsunami, love.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

I'm 100% better with a little bit of controlled chaos. I just know if I have three things to do, or nine things to do, I'm just better at them if I have nine.