The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spiri….

It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison..

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser ….

Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive..

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses..

The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinion….

A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state, utter ruin. A candid admission of a blunde….

Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship mo….

The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day..

Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour..