Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.

We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.