Reflection and curiosity

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

There is no greater misery than false joys.”

No one ought to consider himself a true servant of God who is not tried by many temptations and trials.

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

You cannot please both God and the world at the same time.  They are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions.

Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, not even if your whole world seems upset. If you find that you have wandered away from the shelter of God, lead your heart back to Him quietly and simply.

The human heart is not shaped like a valentine heart, perfect and regular in contour it is slightly irregular in shape as if a small piece of it were missing out of its side. The missing part may very well symbolize a piece that a spear tore out of the universal heart of humanity on the Cross, but it probably symbolizes something more. It may very well mean that when God created each human heart, he kept a small sample of it in heaven, and sent the rest of it into the world, where it would each day learn the lesson that it could never be really happy, that it could never be really wholly in love, that it could never be really whole-hearted until it rested with the Risen Christ in an eternal Easter.