Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents’ clout.

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.