Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Women don’t try to use me.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

If you wished to be loved, love.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Love is a state of being.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.