It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life. But it takes time for the seed to grow, for the Kingdom to come, and we are commanded to pray and work for that coming, that growth, even if we do not yet see the fruits, or even the blossoms, or even the leaves...

Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.