God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

I believe in order that I may understand.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

We're unique in ways that can't be imagined, but you'll never know until you rid yourself of comparison.

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.

England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'

Silver-the first book of dreams

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

Noah's wife, who said to him after 40 days and 40 nights, It's your turn to spread the papers on the floor! Never got a dinner!

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.