We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

Stop thinking and start looking.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice �out there� calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice �in here� calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.

The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.