For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.

Failure can only be a reality for those who are willing to give up on themselves. I hope we are all in it to win it?

(Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said "bullshit, " which was and is awesome.)

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.