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"O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do."
"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables."
"What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience."
"Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared."
"Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes."
"He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books."
"If you believe that something is good, and you do it, it benefits you. If you believe that something is bad, and you do it, it is a very detrimental experience."
"When you say "Yes" to something, you include something you do want in your experience. When you say "No" to something, you include something you don't want in your experience."
"You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib."
"In Los Angeles, everyone is a star."
"Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits."
"Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere."
"I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock."
"Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin."
"O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by."
"It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but temptation, and no one is exempt from it, especially those who have given themselves to God; his own Son even passed through this trial. But if it is necessary for everyone, it is also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good, as you do."
"In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God."
"I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others."
"God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the spirit of Our Lord."
"His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions."
