When it comes to influence, TRUST is often the missing piece.
If there is no humility, love remains blocked.
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.
Iraqis don't trust one another, parties and ministries are run by sects and not by functionaries.
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.
I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!