“We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.”

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.

Things never happen the same way twice.

I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Love should be shown without pretending. Hate evil, and hold on to what is good.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil.