Our feelings are energy, so when you find the energy you want you can attach it to a desire.
Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.
Grace flows through wounds.
Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others, view the Church, the Sacraments, grace, God, heaven, marriage, the celibate vocation. . . we will never view the world the same way again.
Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.
If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.
My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.
We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.