If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

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.

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

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