As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this love is the resetting of a body of broken bones. Even saints cannot live with saints on this earth without some anguish. There are two things which men can do about the pain of disunion with other men. They can love or they can hate.

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

The land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out... For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord...Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near...Why do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which doth not satisfy you?

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