The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

show me all the parts of you that you do not love so i know where to begin.

I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

My inner world creates my outer world.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.