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

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.

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

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

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.

If you don't respect money, it won't respect you.

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

Okay. I've got a good one." Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

I like to have curves and feel like a woman. I hope that people see that in my photos and know that healthy is better than skinny.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.