Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

I believe in order that I may understand.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.

It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.

Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.