I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck.
Life can be challenging and sad. . . but music is the easy part.
It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer. . . . Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.
I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.
The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.
It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.
Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance.
Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Paul Hollywood's "You're under baked" is even better than "You're fired. "