To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.