Haniel Long Quotes

Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.

No poem in the world could do my mom justice. Despite circumstance and adversity, she had an unwavering love for her kids and a faith-based, boundless capacity for forgiveness.

Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

I just want to be a good mom who makes her little girl proud.

Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman.

I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me.

It's pretty easy for me because I have a wonderful wife. We put God first and it takes a lot of hard work.

From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from the time I was a child to even now with my family helping with my little boy. It's worth more than words could ever describe. That's one of the ways I've been able to stay grounded is thanks to family and God.

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.