Out of darkness is born the light.

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.

Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals.

It is not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

I can see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today. Discipline yourself to write and take time to enjoy writing. Do it a lot. Have fun with it. Begin now.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.