Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads