We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

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 have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.

It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

You're hungry for the infinite and the infinite is hungry for you.