Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes

The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.