Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.

What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.

The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.