We in New Orleans are a people of faith, ... What if this tragedy should push ourselves to a greater good.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

With as much tragedy as she had, with both her husbands passing away and her two daughters, that woman's faith never faltered.

I think the real tragedy here is that people were acting in good faith and gave a deposit.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith [but] they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.