The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

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

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy Spirit in Christ. It is His will that we reach out for our inheritance, that we answer His call to be His sons. We are born men without our consent, but the consent to be sons of God has to be elicited by our own free will.