One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office

The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice."Whoopee", said Crowley.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that's all right with fire. As far as fire is concerned, that's what those things are there for in the first place.

I can't stop while there are lives to be saved.

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

I've got about $30,000 in chips, not near enough.