Religion

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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

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Christ alone is the cornerstone on which it is possible solidly to build one's existence. Only Christ, known, contemplated and loved, is the faithful friend who never lets us down, who becomes our travelling companion, and whose words warm our hearts.

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I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

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Courageously follow the path of personal holiness and diligently nourish yourselves with the word of God and the Eucharist. The holier you are, the more you can contribute to building up the Church and society.

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Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah.

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A master in Zen is not simply a teacher. In all the religions there are only teachers. They teach you about subjects which you don't know, and they ask you to believe because there is no way to bring those experiences into objective reality. Neither has the teacher known them, he has believed them; he transfers his belief to somebody else.
Zen is not a believer's world. It is not for the faithful ones; it is for those daring souls who can drop all belief, unbelief, doubt, reason, mind, and simply enter into their pure existence without boundaries. But it brings a tremendous transformation.
Hence, let me say that while others are involved in philosophies, Zen is involved in metamorphosis, in a transformation. It is authentic alchemy: it changes you from base metal into gold. But its language has to be understood, not with your reasoning and intellectual mind but with your loving heart. Or even just listening, not bothering whether it is true or not. And a moment comes suddenly that you see it, which has been eluding you your whole life. Suddenly, what Gautam Buddha called "eighty-four thousand doors" open.

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On all occasions of trial He has saved me. I know that the phrase "God saved me" has a deeper meaning for me today, and still I feel that I have not yet grasped its entire meaning. Only richer experience can help me to a fuller understanding.
But in all my trials, of a spiritual nature, as a lawyer, in conducting institutions, and in politics, I can say that God saved me. When every hope is gone, "when helpers fail and comforts flee", I experience that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.

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The Christian sees the Church as the Body of Christ, as the vessel that guards with absolute integrity the deposit of faith, as the faithful Spouse who communicates without addition or subtraction all that Christ entrusted. The Church as a fully "sanctified" reality and capable of receiving and of communicating, without error or defect, from its own poverty and even with its own sins, the full sanctity of God, is not a "complement" or an "institutional addition" to Jesus Christ, but a full participation of his Incarnation, of His Life, of His Passion, death and Resurrection. In defending its purity, its indefectibility, its sanctity as the bride, the Church is defending the "place" through which the gift of the life of God passes on to the world and the gift of the life of the world to God. This gift, the fullest expression of which is the Eucharist. Is not another gift among ourselves but the supreme gift of the most intimate life of the Trinity that poured forth for the life of the world and the life of the world assumed by the Son that is offered to the Father.

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Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, this is your spiritual act of worship.

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For me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.