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As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.
There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.
Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.
We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.
Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.
The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.
The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother.
If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.
Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.
Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.
The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.
The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.
Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.
Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.
The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.
Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.
People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community.
Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one.
From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary.
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.
The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.
Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.