Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

G.K. Chesterton, who was part of a Catholic conservatism that was kind and loving, not reactionary or hateful, said "We're all in the same boat in a stormy sea and we owe each other a terrible loyalty." I think that's profoundly true, yet it's difficult to have civil dialogue right now with other Christians, so how can we possibly talk to "all the nations"?

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.