Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations.

Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same - the image of God.

Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.

Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart.

The longer we remain without confessing, the worse it is for us, the more entangled we become in the bonds of sin, and therefore the more difficult it is to give an account.

It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.

Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.

'With God all things are possible' (Mk. 10:27). With God the thought itself is deed. He speaks and it is. Short and clear. And all the worlds stand by the Word of God.

The Lord is the accomplishment of everything good that I think, feel and do.

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

Those that choose to walk in the light will experience light.Those that choose the opposite path create for themselves the opposite experience.

The permit limits are pretty close to what the reality is.

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.

Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

If there is something to steal, I steal it.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.