Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.
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.
We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.
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.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.