Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.

Love cannot long survive without truth. Nor is truth really truth unless it is integrated with love.

If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts.

We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, 'in statu missionis.' Thus, living fully within the mainstream of grace, under the mantle of God's divine authority, and by uniting ourselves to the obedience of Christ on the cross, we participate in the reversal of Adam's sin.

Use your wealth to serve God.

From the time you were signed at MGM you just felt you were in God's hands.

I think being in the world of R&B creates a sense of home, and I think it's important to have that sense of home and spirituality within your music.

I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter's bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.