We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
If we knew how to listen to God, we would hear him speaking to us. For God does speak. He speaks in his Gospels. He also speaks through life — that new gospel to which we ourselves add a page each day.