Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

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 wiggle my eyebrows. 'Sorry, Evan, I can't make out with you while the dog is aligning himself with a magnetic field.

It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.

Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.