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One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
[Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.
Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit.
Open your minds and hearts to the beauty of all that God has made and to His special, personal love for each one of you.
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way.
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.
The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence.
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.
God's grace and mercy are bigger than the biggest challenge we may face today and the worst decision we might make today.
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.
As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.
I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.
Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
The gospel word of the day can become like a painting on the walls. of your inner room, the inner room that is your heart.
Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.
The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.
...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.
The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.
Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.
Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives.
Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.
Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.
The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.
There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me.
You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.
I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.
You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.