I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.
Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder. ' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.
In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. . . . It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people that his name should be used in polite society only when cursing. . . . [P]oliticians are often eager to associate themselves personally with you-know-who, even -- and especially -- when they rather flagrantly ignore his injunctions. . . . He was out of step then, and he is out of step now. He is eternally out of step, and eternally more powerful than those who keep in step. You know who I mean.
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat. , Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi. ]