O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received.

Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.