If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

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

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.

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