L.A. Paul Quotes

Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.

The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.

What we have currently available is what we have available.

Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God.

I was always kind of naïve, and really needed to be given some direction.

There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella'.

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.

Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out of yourself for ever.

The two heart-grey puddles: two mouthsfull of silence.

This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

Concussions is one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. There's no increase in concussions. The number is relatively small. The problem is, it is a journalist issue.

Chess is a test of wills.

Don't put too much pressure on Jack Wilshere... in years to come I think he will be an Arsenal great like Liam Brady

People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

I saw people rise out of poverty right in front of me. ... It made me believe that the market was the most powerful tool for change that we could hope to have.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.

Muffled lives explode in understatements.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

There is no love which does not become help.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

Have fun doing whatever it is that you desire to accomplish. Learn it one step at a time, emphasizing the fundamentals, and do it because you love it, not because it's work.

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital.

Think globally, act locally.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.