A silent lover is one who doesn't know his job..

Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are..

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right..

You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead —and for him who is the ….

It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to ….

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners.

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter..

God makes the world not out of necessity but by a divine Whim, and the world he makes is a whimsically romantic place. We're all crazy about each oth….

... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire univers….

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is..

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck..

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace.

The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home.….

The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are prec….

Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory..

Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions.….

He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thi….

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare..

The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply to believe that someone….

The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls..