Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace... We must dare to opt consciously for our chosenness and not allow our emotions, feelings, or passions to seduce us into self-rejection.

The great #‎ conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.

Prayer is the way to both the heart of God and the heart of the world - precisely because they have been joined through the suffering of Jesus Christ Praying is letting one's own heart become the place where the tears of God's children merge and become tears of hope.

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.