What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.
When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry. ' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words.
Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.
You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.
Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.