God seeks us as eagerly as we seek God.

Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are.

The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.

The world does not owe us a living, we owe the world a living, our own.

You're never going to be ready"..."Don't you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don't, you're always going to run away

My mind is my canvas

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

What feeds me destroys me.

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

The difference between us and other people is that their money looks bigger and their troubles smaller.

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.