God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

Love is something worth suffering for.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.

IF THE LORD IS OUR JOY, OUR JOY CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY. IT CANNOT BE LOST...JOY HAD COME TO THE WORLD, AND IT HAD COME TO STAY.

As I count my blessings, I feel God's Loving Hands touching each of them.

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Market it with the persistence of a drug peddler.

I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

One possible reason that I don't believe in fate is that I wasn't fated to.

True change happens within not without

November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.

[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.