Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.

The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.