I believe in order that I may understand.

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.

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

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.

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 be strong doesn't fulfill your eagerness to win....add a piece of confidence..

The public! why the public's nothing better than a great baby.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

It is time for us to come together as one united people.

All that is obvious detracts completely from all that is not.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.