You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.

Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism that sinks its roots into an awareness of our freedom, and the sure knowledge of the power of grace. It is an optimism that leads us to make demands on ourselves, to struggle to respond at every moment to God's call.