Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.

...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

You can't enjoy sipping of success without first enduring failure's fire

Vision helps to direct your focus appropriately.

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.