Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone.

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.