Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
Negative feelings choke the Lord’s word in us.
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.
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.