'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.

The poor should live by alms.

Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.

Most smiles are started by another smile.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell . . . how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

The number one job of a leader is to protect the truth.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

Mood has a scuba section? Who knew?