“For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.”

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful.

Our Lord said. Be yourself with the good Lord.

But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts

It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.

What matters is not your outward appearance but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God’s love for us.

Man’s salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.

Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing.

There’s always a ying-yang in life. With everybody. There’s evil in all of us. It’s just about how you balance out the evil and the good and having faith in yourself and how you carry yourself.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Ooh, I’d love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something… I don’t know!

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.