While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.

Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.