Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

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.

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the visible product, the bottom line. The plant of our new life in Christ is one; the life of God comes into us by faith, through us by hope, and out of us by the works of love.

We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.