Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

Everything is defeated before love.

The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind.

When I understood that neither parents, nor family, nor friends, nor anyone in the world could offer me anything but pain, insults and wounds, I resolved to stop living for the world.

Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.

Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.

In fact she herself once blamed meKyprogeneiabecause I prayed this word:I want.

Bringing the essence of life in form of experience is the most crucial element in the development of human mind.

I’d rather be surround by people who make mistakes and have no problem admitting to them and learning from them than be surrounded by people who think they make none.

The harder you look, the harder you look.

This generation can only reach this generation.

We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

I missed out on the Spice Girls. I missed out on all those big pop phenomenon and missed out even on the Madonna records. It's okay, cuz I'm playing catch-up on everything now.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.