"“Character is the one that carries whatever we become. If your wealth is bigger than your character, that wealth will be spending you, not you spending it.”"

"“The more they persecute me, the more the favour of God upon my life. The more they persecute me, the more God will increase my blessing.""

"We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing."

"Those who created yesterday’s pain cannot control tomorrow’s potential."

"I cannot define failure because I don't believe in failure. There is no failure in my book. All I see is success, directed by the Spirit of God."

"“When times are stable, and the sea is calm and secure, no one is really tested.”"

"“People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.”"

"When we inherit stolen wealth in a will, we would live under a stolen future – thereby mortgaging our future. Remember, what comes from God goes to Him. What comes from truth goes to truth. What comes from stealing goes to stealing. What comes from destruction goes to destruction."

"“Someone out there is waiting for you for a lifetime. You cannot afford to fail them; failing them is failing God. Remember, God is speaking to you through them, saying: 'They are fatherless, so that you can be their father.' 'They are lonely, so that you can be their companion.' 'They are in want, so that you can be their benefactor.' ”"

"Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny."

"If we make mistakes, as we all do – don’t run from God, run to Him."

"If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace."

"We are one another's strength."

""If you are prepared to die, you are prepared to live.”"

"“We should not allow unhealthy ego, pride or greed to overrule our good intention.”"

"Your success and happiness depend on your willingness to help others solve their problems."

"It is praiseworthy when you give not only to your power but beyond your power."

"“I feel strong in challenges, believing that personal improvement and fulfillment come through the continual process of learning from both negative and positive experiences.”"

"Our position in Christ Jesus is enhanced each time we help someone in trouble."

"It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God’s goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin."

"Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most."

"Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history."

"Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort."

"Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross."

"Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery."

"In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose."

"The way and manner God executes His plan in our lives differs."

"If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes."

"Discovery is for forward lookers."

"If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy."

"“You need not fear where you are going when you know Jesus is going with you.”"

"You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you."

"When I feel overwhelmed by misfortune, the greatest joy that the Lord can give me is to go to the altar, to put my forehead against it (as on the day of my ordination to the priesthood), and to feel the presence of the only reality. Not only does calm return, but my body seems to be annihilated; the only true life begins, the life of that which is intangible.""

"I am not a Jacob wrestling with God, but a Job lying on his dung-hill. I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action. The book, the cell, the presence at the altar and at lengthy church ceremonies, and above all the solitude and withdrawal from the world -- this is the atmosphere which suits me; it is there that I feel like a fish in the water. I cannot lead an active and contemplative life at the same time. You know how much I love the Jesuits, but their ideal (to unite contemplation with action) is not within my means."

"If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey. As for teaching the Catechism, the Catholic Church holds that children must be taught their religion, no matter what the law says. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind."

"My whole life has been based on two principles: the love of the Church to which I am united, and the love of my country, which I adore. If I do not care whether I am sentenced to ten years imprisonment or to be shot, it is not because I am a fanatic... Since I joined the Catholic Church my sole object has been to reconcile my country to that Church which I believe to be the One True Church."

"The true messianism of the Russian Church is not what the Slavophiles have imagined, but it is the example of suffering. It is in this way that she shows that she is the continuation of Christ in this world."

"I need Thy presence every passing hour; What, but Thy grace, can foil the tempter's power? Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, oh, abide with me!"

"Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee."

"Let good or ill befall, It must be good for me,— Secure of having Thee in all, Of having all in Thee."

"A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song."

"Speak the truth, by all means! Speak it so that no man can mistake the utterance. Be bold and fearless in your rebuke of error, and in your keener rebuke of wrong-doing; all Christ's witnesses are bound to be thus "valiant for the truth;" but be human and loving and gentle and brotherly the while. If you must deliver the Redeemer's testimony, deliver it with the Redeemer's tears. Look, straight-eyed and kindly, upon the vilest, as a man ought to look upon a man, both royal, although the one is wearing, and the other has pawned his crown."

"Last words: "Peace! Joy!""

"Haste thee on from grace to glory, Armed by faith and winged by prayer, Heaven's eternal day's before thee; God's own hand shall guide thee there."

"Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now."

"Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth; and from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus."

"Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey."

"Wearily have the years passed, I know; wearily to the pale watcher on the hill who has been so long gazing for the daybreak; wearily to the anxious multitudes who have been waiting for his tidings below. Often has the cry gone up through the darkness, " Watcher, what of the night?" and often has the disappointing answer come, "It is night still; here the stars are clear above me, but they shine afar, and yonder the clouds lower heavily, and the sad night winds blow." But the time shall come, and perhaps sooner than we look for it, when the countenance of that pale watcher shall gather into intenser expectancy, and when the challenge shall be given, with the hopefulness of a nearer vision, "Watcher, what of the night?" and the answer will come, "The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is a radiance on the distant hill. It comes nearer — that promise of the day. The clouds roll rapidly away, and they are fringed with amber and gold. It is, it is the blest sunlight that I feel around me — Morning! It is Morning!""

"Your participation of the holy communion must be regarded as the fresh act of your espousals, as the solemn renewal of your covenant; as your surrender, entire and unhesitating, to the service of the Lord. It is thus that you confess Christ, and witness of Him to the world. If you eat and drink without discerning this great purpose, you eat and drink unworthily; if you repudiate such purpose, either in thought or act, you crucify in your measure the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame. By your profane use of the means of grace without the slightest desire for the grace of the means, it is as if you cut and wounded the Saviour in this the house of His friends, and sharpened the daggers of your treachery upon the tables of the violated law."

"There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; — it shall go ringing on through the ages."