We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.