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One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.
It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful.
The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!
I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.
Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.'
[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage.
The Eucharist is the link that binds the Christian family together. Take away the Eucharist and you have no brotherliness left
Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.
Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.
The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.
Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.
It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.
To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.
There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall.
The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.
You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.
There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.
Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.
Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.
In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.