A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

If you do not pray, everything can disappoint you by going wrong. If you do pray, everything can still go wrong, but not in a way that will disappoint you.

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a film, a broadcast, or a conversation with someone who can impart it.

The patients who constantly feel their pulse are not getting any better.

What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

A great leader must always keep in mind the golden rule: respect for their subordinates.Tribute to Noah Sealth.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

I just like being around people, especially nice people, and there are a lot of nice girls on tour.

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

I want to carry Manuel Neuer to my home.