Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.

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.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.

What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.