One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.
The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of man’s life are to be ordered. Therefore it inevitably inclines the will to violate God’s law.
He who is controlled by objects Loses possession of his inner self: If he no longer values himself, How can he value others? If he no longer values others, He is abandoned. He has nothing left!
Get warm any way you can, and love God and pray.
We have been fashioned, in all our perfection, each according to his own nature, and all our natures ordered and harmonized together, that man’s reason and his love might fit in this one last element, this God-given key to the meaning of the whole.
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
May God prevent us from becoming “right-thinking men”-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be.
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
The only unhappiness is not to love God.
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.