Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.

Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.

We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

Words are loneliness.

I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do.

I hate tears, it makes it easy to forget someone.

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical

The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

According to the latest poll, a record 73 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. But the good news: Gas is so expensive that we'll never get there.

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.