God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.