“The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?”

God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.

Love me, love my dog.

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear.

And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

Angelina Jolie is my style inspiration.

May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.

When you get on the boat that’s saving you, don’t pull up the ladder behind you

Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

The unity of the Bible is one of the wonderful proofs of the inspiration of God’s Word- that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God.

I think you can find a lot of joy and inspiration through food.