Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.

Grace flows through wounds.

If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.

When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.

In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.

For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman.

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

God's plan remains God's plan despite our sin.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

Become vision itself.

What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?