Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.

Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

I didn't realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?