A Quote for the Day

True freedom is not only about being able to choose to perform good acts, but also about being so in doing the bad. A good person however willfully chooses to do the difficult but good things to do, and take responsibility of his bad actions. The evil person simply chooses otherwise. It is not about finding faults in others any way you can. It is about being free to choose the full exercise of one's talents to find effective solutions.

In simple things comes the deepest of happiness, the joy of the soul.

While the brilliance of light can best be appreciated when surrounded by darkness, Light does not need the Darkness in order to exist. In fact, Darkness was of the Light but lost its source of brightness.

The sad, and many times painful, hollow inside ourselves is a grace that invites a person towards the river of living water that only Jesus can give. Our emptiness is our looking glass revealing before our eyes the fleeting satisfaction we can enjoy from all created things. Like thirst and hunger that returns after few hours of the previous meal, emptiness visits us, and invites us to seek the presence of God in our lives from where we can draw a filling of our souls that will never be exhausted.

Almost all the time, when we proceed to do the things we fear despite the fear, we come to find out that there is not much to fear at all. Fear oftentimes is just in our mind, a natural human reaction on things he feels uncertain about, things he does not understand. Fear is the offspring of unbelief.  

Each person is designed not to be alone. Each person's blind spots can only be seen by another. And without others, a person will remain blind in many things about himself. In intimate fellowship with each other we are meant to be.

You cannot change the nature of things. The most important difference between man and animal is that man can strive to change his natural inclinations through commitment, assisted by divine grace. A cat who knows only but steal food from your table seldom change no matter what punishment you bring into it. But a wayward person can change the course of his life if he realized he followed the wrong path, and seek God's graces for the change. Beyond that the nature of things stay the way they are.