We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I have dedicated my life to a doomed struggle against reality and the things that cannot be otherwise

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

You can't think of nothing.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.

Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.