The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

Life is nether a play nor a party. But the love of prayer.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.