Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.

You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

Get off, you look ugly (to a blood splattered player during a game)