At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don’t require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I’ll take a powernap during the day.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

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.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

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.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

What we think, we become.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.