Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.