For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.
In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.
Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need.
How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.
Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.
In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.
We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.
Miracles happen. But prayer is needed! Prayer that is courageous, struggling and persevering, not prayer that is a mere formality.
Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.
Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.
You know my God. My God is called love
There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness
We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.
From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.
...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.
As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.
Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.
Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.
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