Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

The road ahead is long and there will be many setbacks. Success is not assured… but the price of failure has never been this high.

I’ll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless

Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

I don't see coach job stressful, I really don't. Of course, there is pressure and expectation, but I wouldn't necessarily equate that with stress.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

Window washers increase the vision in the windows of the buildings; wisdom quotes do the same thing in the eyes of the people!

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.