Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.
Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.
Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.
Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.
Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.
Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!
God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.
The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'
One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.
If I eat junk food and have a workout the next day, I feel a significant difference in the way my body responds to exercise. Im sluggish, tired and run out of energy very quickly.
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.