The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

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.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.

Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ's sake. Amen.