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.

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.

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

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

Yığın kadındır. Irzını teslim edecek bir zorba arar. Çobansız rahat edemeyen kaz sürüsü.

I have a secret. My inner smile is shining.

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way.

Girlfriends and boyfriends come and go.The good times had with them are easily forgotten. But best friends stay in your heart forever.

If you have to do the work, do it well, with all your heart.

The news that gives you a future with hope, in spite of your despair over the past, is realizing that Jesus has prayed for you and is praying for you now.

Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.

How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.

I think the future of food is in insects.