It is easier to serve the hate-gods because they thrive on the worship of collective fanaticism. To serve the hate-gods, one only has to be blinded by collective passion. To serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the...
God approaches our minds by receding from them. We can never fully know Him if we think of Him as an object of capture, to be fenced in by our own ideas. We know Him better after our minds have let Him go. The Lord travels in all directions at once. The Lord arrives...
If one reaches the point where understanding fails,this is not a tragedy; it is simply a reminderto stop thinking and start looking.Perhaps there is nothing to figure out after all;perhaps we only need to wake up.
There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the ass understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.
We who have seen the light of Christ are obliged, by the greatness of the grace that has been given us, to make known the presence of the Savior to the ends of the earth--not only by preaching the tidings of His coming; but above all by revealing Him in our lives....
It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as God's will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe you - try to share some of their...
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.
…when the time comes to enter the darkness in which we are naked and helpless and alone; in which we see the insufficiency of our greatest strength and the hollowness of our strongest virtue; in which we have nothing to rely on, and nothing in our nature to support...
Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room at all, Christ comes uninvited.
In silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.