The kings and dictators and the mighty of the world accomplish their work with speeches and drums and brass and the thunder of bombers. But God works in silence.
01572 – God Works in Silence
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01566 – Not at Peace
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
01454 – Dealing with Temptation
The Fathers used to say: If some temptation arises in the place where you dwell in the desert, do not leave that place in time of temptation. For if you leave it then, no matter where you go, you will find the same temptation waiting for you. But be patient until the...
01452 – Desiring Intimate Union with God
If you desire intimate union with God, you must be willing to pay the price for it. The price is small enough. In fact, it is not even a price at all; it only seems to be so with us. We find it difficult to give up our desire for things that can never satisfy us in...
01344 – Risk Everything to Gain Everything
Sooner or later, if we follow Christ we have to risk everything in order to gain everything. We have to gamble on the invisible and risk all that we can see and taste and feel. But we know the risk is worth it, because there is nothing more insecure than the transient...
01305 – Violence Doesn’t Really Change Anything
Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.
01110 – Still Overcoming Evil with Good
It is only the infinite mercy and love of God that has prevented us from tearing ourselves to pieces and destroying His entire creation long ago. People seem to think that it is in some way a proof that no merciful God exists, if we have so many wars. On the contrary,...
01015 – Seeing Other People as God Sees Them
In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all these people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were...
00793 – All Sin Starts with Our False Self
All sin starts from the assumption that my false self, the self that exists only in my own egocentric desires, is the fundamental reality of life to which everything else in the universe is ordered. Thus I use up my life in the desire for pleasures and the thirst for...
00673 – Christ Lives in Us
We are called to experience the Resurrection in our own lives by entering into this dynamic movement, by following Christ who lives in us. This life, this dynamism, is expressed by the power of love and of encounter: Christ lives in us if we love one another…