My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in 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.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

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

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

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

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

Faith never makes a confession.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

How can we help President Obama?

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

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

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Marriage is the death of hope.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.