The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.
Grace flows through wounds.
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.
I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.
That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.