Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

Whoever marries the spirit of the times must soon become a widower.

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...

Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.