The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Parents, pray that God may crown your home with grace and mercy.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.

Our worth comes from the promises we keep.

If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.