The Church is the Body of Christ, and as such it is both heavenly and earthly. The Church is the communion of saints, and it includes as members both angels and shepherds - cherubim and seraphim, and you, and me.

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Love is something worth suffering for...

[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any winged creature (or mechanism) tries to fly on just one wing, it falls to the ground. In a similar way, when we human beings try to wing it with just one faculty, we crash.

He gave our pain and struggles a holy significance, a redemptive power, which makes it a privilege for us to suffer with Christ.