With the word "Repent" He was beckoning to us as the Savior, offering us His love and salvation. But behind this word we can also see the grief of God that His children have turned away from Him.

Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night.

In the darkest of nights cling to the assurance that God loves you, that He always has advice for you, a path that you can tread and a solution to your problem.

Everything God does is love -even when we do not understand Him.

Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.

Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.

It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish, they lack real spiritual authority.

God never disappoints anyone who places his trust in Him.

Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.

Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.

The angels of God are bright and shining beings, emanating light and mirroring the glory of God.

when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between...the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.

Life brings you exactly what you need.

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.