Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.
If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don't give birth to sin yourself, rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise.
Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours.
The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.
Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.
I go to him as a baby goes to his mother so that he can fill me and invade all and take me in his arms.
If worship does not change us it has not been worship.
Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.
Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.
God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.
Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.
It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.
When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.
We are either the masters or victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow, we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose change.
Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.
The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him.
God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.
Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not institutional maintenance, is what the Church is for. When the Church is that, and does that, it flourishes.
If you think you don't have any time for prayer, and can't find any time, then ask God to forgive you... The Pope isn't too busy for his daily rosary; if you're busier than the Pope, you're too busy.
Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.
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