SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“It is very interesting that…it is only when God “empties himself” for the life of the world, that He actually takes on being. Before...

“The Gospel is very simple, and yet we don’t understand it. I’m not impressed with overactivity in the Church, and I’m not impressed with...

“I once confessed to an experienced priest that sinful thoughts were torturing me, and this is what he advised me: “Think of the thoughts...

“In shame, the only thing we accept is our failure and the idea that we deserve perpetual punishment….The shame we are speaking of is a...

“Two gifts that God has given to man for the good of himself and others and which he should multiply are conscience and faith. The...

“God is love and though it is at times hard for us to bear, God sometimes chooses for us a different path than that which we are praying...

“But Nietzsche, madman and destroyer of faith, fascinated me. His work was twisted and imaginative, truthful and awful and compelling; he...

“Divine justice is radically different from human justice. There is no equal exchange remotely possible;…“the whole moral order as we...

“The reason the Church puts restrictions on pleasures…is not that she is against them, but she wants you to be able to distinguish...

“Our Risen Lord has liberated us from slavery to the fear of death, which is at the root of all our anxiety and despair. So the next time...