The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

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.

Adding value to your life is the only way to fulfill your calling

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. – Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Your body’s reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.

If we do not understand our sin, we will not understand the kind of savior we need.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.