Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.

We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and the cheering has stopped, they will face a smaller audience, the judgment bar of God.

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.