By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us