I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

The way to know life is to love many things.