“Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.”

It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

I’ve definitely accepted the fact that I’m not normal.

I can say for a fact, football is definitely my sport, and I can’t wait to show the world what I can do.

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won’t be doing ‘X Factor’ just yet.

Even if my grandchildren don’t remember the fact that I scored 10,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket, I am confident that they will remember that Sachin Tendulkar used to be my team-mate.

I’m having the time of my life and the fact that I’m still working – how lucky can you get? I’m 90 years old and still able to work as much as I do. That’s a privilege.

I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.

If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.

No matter if you like it or not, you could hate Drake, he always says stuff that everybody can relate to. Facts.