L.A. Paul Quotes

Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Bad company ruins good morals.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Hope does not disappoint.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

The Regulars are coming out!

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have

It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it.

Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others.

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.

If one day speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.

From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!

Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.

The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.