Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.

God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.

Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.

Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.

You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.

If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.

I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.