To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.
Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.
On the whole I feel that life has treated me rather well, but I sometimes wonder how well have I treated life.
I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.
Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.
If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.