Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

If Christians read Holy Scripture, they will grow in the Knowledge of Christ. And be filled with the grace of God.

Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!

By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot.

The Palestinian people's needs must be respected.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.