The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If a person were to throw a bullet with his hands, he would hardly make a dent in anything; but if the person takes the same bullet and ignites some gunpowder behind it, it can kill. It is much the same with the word of God. If it is spoken by someone who is filled with the fire of charity- the fire of love of God and neighbor- it will work wonders.
Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.
Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.
The faith I have when I am in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament is so strong that I find it impossible to express what I feel. . . When the time comes to leave I must force myself to overcome the inclination to prolong my stay with Jesus.
The Christian who desires to follow Jesus carrying his cross must bear in mind that the name "Christian" means "learner or imitator of Christ" and that if he wishes to bear that noble title worthily he must above all do as Christ charges us in the Gospel: We must oppose or deny ourselves, take up the cross, and follow him.
I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state. ' It will screw us up in a real way.
We learn only to ask more questions.
I'm not the Hollywood type of person.
The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.