In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

There was no thunderbolt, no quickening of the heart, but there was a sense of recognition.A familiarity about his face..

It’s one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it’s the worst when friends become strangers,

ANSON: I want to give you the world, but a man like me doesn’t have the world to give. [He ... leveled her with a gold-eyed look that ripped at her heart.] I can give you me.

Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do, we'd be grossly overweight and depressed.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele.