Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.

Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

Everything is defeated before love.

The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind.

When I understood that neither parents, nor family, nor friends, nor anyone in the world could offer me anything but pain, insults and wounds, I resolved to stop living for the world.

Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.

Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.

Stop being a mystery, discover yourself!

Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.

My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church.

Don't you expect a rainbow coming out of the tub of bacon strips at the end of the buffet line?

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.

Akiko Tsuruga ranks as one of the top organists around today.

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.