The best metaphor for our world of today is astronauts speeding through the cosmos, but with their life-supporting capsule pierced by a meteorite fragment. But the Church resembles Mary and Joseph traveling from Egypt to Nazareth on a donkey, holding in their arms the weakness and poverty of the Child Jesus: God incarnate.
Carlo Carretto
Let us keep this truth before us.
You say have no faith?
Love -- and faith will come.
You say you are sad?
Love -- and joy will come.
You say you are alone?
Love -- and you will break out of your solitude.
You say you are in hell?
Love -- and you will find yourself in heaven.
Heaven is love.