The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.
Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?
Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.
Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.
Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.
We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.
One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to see individual therapies customized for individual patients, and it's going to change the way people get healthcare.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.