The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to divine stirrings. No, we are then also being simply unfaithful to the surrounding reality. The one who purges gloom has given occasions and reasons, in the midst of life's sadness, to be joyful.

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to the spheres of life that today we call economic and that we see embodied in business and commerce.