Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Let thy sacred heart be thy holy home.

If we can teach children to think beyond the five senses, we can raise a generation of leaders that will be able to sustain the future.

Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?

Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.

These are the days of bootleg love.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

No one commits suicide because they want to die.