I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.

The preoccupations of young women-their looks, their clothes, their social life-don't seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every generation there are a few that make others choices.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.