Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

When we spend money we lose them forever, when we give them away, we will have them forever.

I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

Reality itself is too twisted.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.