God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

Showing kindness to others is one of the nicest things we can do for ourselves.

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance.