“Some things just have to be believed to be seen.”

“We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.”

“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”

“We are all trophies of God’s grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)”

“we persevere because we believe rewards will come.”

“The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for’, as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.”

“Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”