If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

For it is in giving that we receive.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

I am the herald of the Great King.

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

It is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance.

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

Songwriting is my gift from God.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Humanity is the sin of God.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.