The purpose of the world is a grand but also a personal question.

When we travel we see reality with a different set of eyes; we not only taste new food, smell exotic aromas and hear foreign voices, but we also come to look at ourselves differently.

There are certain things which seem to open suddenly a new dimension to us: a brief moment of eternity.

The second act is often the place of the false project, where the protagonist pursues a wrong goal before realizing what his true need is.

Both past and future can overwhelm the present.

Life’s treasures come from someone who shed his riches for us, someone who does not charge interest if we can’t pay Him back.

Praise God for who he is and for who we are, however we may be.

A legacy measured not in dollars, or real state, or trophies, but in changed lives.

Is there anything stupid you feel tempted to do?

God created life in His image and likeness, and granted them the creativity to sculpt and the ability to love.

If that body was really gone, if Jesus had come back to life, then the matrix of reality is altered; tragedy is not the final result of goodness.

The texture of suffering is changed when we see it and begin to experience it as being redemptive.

Our faith bumps into surprise and dances with doubt, like Peter’s and John’s.

God is like a dynamic of love who enters the world so as to redeem and include sinners in its eternal, ecstatic embrace.

What’s the point of doing if it isn’t doing what we do for other people and with other people?

Desire itself is not evil, on the contrary, it is a delight in pleasure implanted by an infinitely festive Creator.

Humans are intrinsically religious because there is a real God who created us and who we are searching for.

Even in an apparently God-forsaken place there is beauty and humanity worthy of a symphony.

The phone I hold in my hands makes me behave and relate to others differently than I did before.

Power reveals who we are, and reveals even more the fundamentals of our worldview.

Our efforts to gain more influence and power may lead us to execute the very Jesus we hope to announce.

Marriages can’t flourish out of self-centered postures.

We are often cranky and cynical already at a young age, aren’t we?

Possession is less demanding than belonging, but it raises anxiety nonetheless to an aging person.