You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.
Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.
Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.
That's a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.
People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.
Vengeance is without foresight.
When you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless. . . But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird.