Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.