Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.
But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it for them to believe in him, for he would have substituted sight for faith. That is why he does not take us down from our crosses: so that...
Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.
Why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:
Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. […] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to...
Reason and
God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.
When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to tu...
We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to try. Now count the times it tells us to trust.
There is no such thing as an involuntary sin.
In reality, the damned are in the same place as the saved—in reality! But they hate it; it is their Hell. The saved love it, and it is their Heaven. It is like two people sitting side by side at an op...
The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!
That freedom is lost in Hell.
Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint
If Christianity is true, this changes EVERYTHING. Christ's very last words to us in scripture were: Behold, I make all things new. (Rev. 21:5) I hope you remember that most moving line in the most mov...
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
To undo a contradiction, make a distinction.
Despair itself can be hopeful if it is honest.
When I say The good man gave his good dog a good meal, I use good analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three a...
One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.