Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.

It doesn't have to be somber to be sacred.

Clear, crisp, and compelling. . . . Mitzvah Girls is a thoughtful look at the world of Jewish girls who grow up in 21st-century America, but don't really.

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

You have to guard the integrity of your soul and what you believe and have a certain amount of faith not only the country but in God that this is part of the mission.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is but the conviction that there is a mystery and that it is greater than us.

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.