Pray as you can, not as you can't.
Nature expresses a design of love and truth.
The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ. . . Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians. . . Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.
I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.
My boss at Christmas was a lot of fun: "I want you to look in your pay envelopes and you'll know that I keep the Christmas spirit around here. Because in each and every envelope you'll find. . . snow. "
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.