I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.
The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.
Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world.
Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.
Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker. . . the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.
Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers. ) But it was all too much - too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps too much ice cream.
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.