If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

The mind can't delete what the heart won't let go of.

It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

I like the idea of quietly putting music out there and seeing what it does for itself, to let it take it's own life and see if people respond to it, simply because of what it is.

Beliefs help us tap the richest resources deep within us, creating & directing these resources to support our desired outcome

This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.