In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.
It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!
But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend. . . . If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.
Pray, and let God worry.
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
God, I love you," he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips. Madelyn slid her fingers into his hair. "It took you long enough," she said gently. "What I lack in quickness, I make up in staying power. " "Meaning?" "That I'll still be telling you that fifty years from now. " He paused and turned his head to kiss her stomach.
Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
My wife watches me like a hawk.