Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.
When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
You are made in the image of what you desire.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
My God, I pray better to you by breathing. I pray better to you by walking than by talking.
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.
Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows himself to me, I will have Peace, and He will be near me and in me, and I will rest in Him.
True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.
Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.