Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you... but who desperately needs Christ in you.

God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

If you dont' live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good.

We can only be our best by giving, and so we always need to be in the process of giving or preparing to give.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.

The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.

I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.

As actors, you meet people that you are working with and it's tricky. It's blurry... how do you decipher things? I have definitely dated [a co-star], oh yeah, multiple times. It's easy.

Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become immortal in the memory of others.