Love winter when the plant says nothing.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory.