Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

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.

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.

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.