Doubt not, then, his power to bring you through any difficulties, who gives you the command to encounter them.

Before encountering Jesus, Simon could keep his entire life under control.

Every year in celebrating Easter we relive the experience of the first disciples of Jesus, the experience of the encounter with him risen.

There is but one Cross and one character of mind formed by it;  and nothing can be further from it than those tempers and dispositions in which the greater part of men called Christians live.

Pope Francis and I have something common. He was a Jesuit seminarian; so was I.

As years roll on, by little and little one will discover that, after all, he is not, as he imagined, possessed of any real substantial good.

She is as young and as much an obstacle to all worldly politicians, as much an offense to all who seek another ideal than hers, as she was when Nero ruled or Elizabeth tyrannized.

A pure intention consists in making his approval and his glory the supreme motive in our actions.

As to your Lent ... I can only tell you my own experience.

A simple soul is more fully enlightened by a grain of pure faith than Lucifer by all his intelligence.