Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.

Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.

Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.