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There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people
God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.
The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.
Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.
Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.
Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time
I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.
There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.
God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.
Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors.
We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.
When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.
I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012.
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are.
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.
What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.