You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.