We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.
Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be.
Every individual we meet is different than we are. Members of the same family differ one from the other. Friend differs from friend, husband from wife, sister from brother, nation from nation. All these differences make 'feeling' love difficult and isolated to specific individuals according to our tastes and their personalities.
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.
A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.
We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself.
Any form of over-indulgence creates within the body warning signs of destruction.
I must listen as God speaks to my soul through good thoughts, inspirations, and intuitions.
When our neighbor's personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily provoking those qualities in any way. Past experience shows us what upsets a person, so in their presence we are careful not to do or say those things that cause anger. We are self-effacing.
Every Christian is important - important to God, to the world, and to the kingdom.
Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.
Jesus wants us to trust him to take care of all our yesterdays and tomorrows.
Each one of us has a particular virtue and faults that make the process of becoming like Jesus different.
For me, a thing must exist before I know it, but with God, it is different - he must know it before it has existence.
St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn.
God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.
Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.
No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him.
At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.
