Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.

Leadership, a daily development.

Lord have mercy upon mankind.Deliver and save the world from the dreadful EBOLA VIRUS.

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

The days are short, The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark.

I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

You can't just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.

The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name.