It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon‘ die without it.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

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.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Saints need sinners.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

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

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

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.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

We do not judge the people we love.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.