The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.

Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and the decline of aristocracy.

Heralds of the gospel have been needed in every generation. This generation is no different.

I believe that we are just carriers of God's wisdom that he uses to refurnish the earth He created. You are carrying part of that wisdom in you. When it's time to offload it, do so with all passion!

I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.

I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.