I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.
So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.
(a.) Pertaining to inspiration.
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.
Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They...
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who wil...
The priest's work, the priest's service, was understood as an act of worship. This was God's desire at Sinai - that everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God...
The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God’s love.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.