My likeness to Jesus must be through suffering and humility.

Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

O King of glory, though you hide your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving you honor without cease.

He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus. (267)

Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.

I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.

God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route.

How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?

While farmers contribute to our survival, let us also do our part by showing them respect in form of not wasting food.

Life is a wondrous journey that can be of your own making or a combination of fate and luck.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

The only way to change the world is to change yourself.