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Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.

Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.

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