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We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips.
...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.
Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.
I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.
Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
O name of Mary! Joy in the heart, honey in the mouth, melody to the ear of Her devout clients!
There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking.
The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.
Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.
If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .
The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.
It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.
The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.
Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.
We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.
If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.
Is there so much love in the world that we can afford to discriminate against any kind of love?
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.
Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything.
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.
It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation.
God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.