If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.

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.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.