God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you... but who desperately needs Christ in you.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

Consider God's love for you. Now double it. Now multiply that by 900 trillion. You're still not even close.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little one does."

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

All of Christian existence ... stands within an expectation. Its fulfillment may be sure, but its timing is unknown.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.

Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.

My style is kneeing people in the face.