My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.

To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

Silence is God's first language.

Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.

Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

God leads every soul by a separate path.

My sister said she was tired of the blood diet and wants to go home. I guess you'll have to trade your double-wide coffin in for a sleeker single

If you value your relationship or friendship, your ego won't stand in the way of a meaningful apology.

Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.

I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.