A Quote for the Day

  In the most complex problems of life and reality, science and mathematics cannot help. Only God can.

  Fear is forgetting that God will never forsake us. It is a clue to the loss of faith.

  God does not expect a 100% 'Yes'. He knows the heart of human beings. Even in goodness and evil, humans cannot achieve perfection. He only hopes that 'Yes' is the best the human heart can give. His grace will do the rest.

  Human weakness transports us to the embrace of God... not achievements, not money, not even glory.

Most temptations are self-serving. The only effective way to combat it is to forget the self and focus on God and on following His will.

If you cannot follow the father you can see, How can you follow the Father you cannot see? If you cannot honor the father you can see, How can you honor the Father you cannot see? If you cannot love the father you can see, How can you love the Father you cannot see?

Even if I cannot think (like the crazies and the stupid), I still am... human. God made me human, not only because of my ability to think.

If ever you will miss finding God in yourself, look around you. You will see how much God showers them with unconditional love.

Prayer is only relevant to our search for God's designs for us and the world. Other than that, prayer is by nature irrelevant. It is not relevant in terms of our social or personal goals. God simply cannot be manipulated to follow our own designs for Him.

If God had been a symbol, we are nothing but alphanumeric characters having the grandest illusion of possessing life.

The reason why it can be very difficult to know God personally is our own reluctance, in fact even resistance, to know ourselves honestly for who we frankly are.

Encountering oppositions and criticisms can mean that we have at last taken a stand worthy of our gifts. But what we need to be careful about in facing the strong winds in our lives is the temptation to forget that we stood strong and tall against the elements not on our own strength but through the grace of God that works in us. Forgetting this truth will make the triumph against the wind as meaningless as our fall before it. For either way does not make us closer to the God who loves us endlessly.

One great irony of faith, especially among those who profess themselves as Christians, is the human inability to legislate the existence of God.

Each time we hide ourselves from the truth, a part of us hides itself before God in a futile attempt that we can.

One serious obstacle in the growth of faith is the conviction that God has no involvement in the affairs of man, each moment each day, including such an ordinary things as finding a space to park or getting the traffic light to go "red" just in time to let you step down from a jeepneey in a no-stopping street corner.

The truly humble people are those who can sincerely say that there's nothing they have done on their own but only with God; and there is nothing they can ever do without Him. Beyond these echo the Serpent's deceiving lie.

One of the most beautiful thing in a good relationship with the Triune God are the many surprises He can pull off in the most unexpected moments in your life. These are surprises that fascinate the soul, touch the core of your being with a joy that no material thing could ever provide.

There are two basic ways of serving God that even active workers in the Church will have serious difficulty understanding the difference--"doing God's work" and "working for God." And either choice will reflect an important difference between our relationship with God and how we look at our work in relation to God.

Despite the grace given us, we still have to brace our minds for the unexpected movements of God that can defy human explanation. Oftentimes, in order to make sense of it, we simply trust on His love and His will, and let go trying to understand the 'why.' Our thoughts are never His thoughts; our ways never His ways.

There are two basic prayers that express a person's basic orientation towards God in their lives. The first prayer goes: "Lord, here is what I want with my life. Please support me in this plan wherever it may take me." The second prayer says: "Lord, tell me what you want for my life. And I will follow it wherever it may take me." (Not included here are those who either do not pray or do not believe in God in the first place.)