It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.