Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.
I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous. " It makes them feel more real.
Sleep is critical to me. . . at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.
When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.