The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.

You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold on to your chosen direction, your discipline, your prayer, your work, your guides, and trust that one day love will have conquered enough of you that even the most fearful part will allow love to cast out all fear.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

Today's reading was "if they ask you to walk a mile, walk two. Don't take an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth." You have chances every second to live this Word, but it has to be in you. It can't just be an idea; it has to sink from the mind into the heart.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.

Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.