O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.