Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

I've found that people reveal nothing of their true selves except within their art and their sin." ~ Dacey Sinnett, 'ROAM

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

When you find that you're unhappy, know that it's because you're not loving properly.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.