Catherine Doherty

Yes, of course, the Christian has dogmas he must believe in order to be a Christian, but all those dogmas concern love which is the essence. God is love. Where love is, God is. Dogmas and tenets of the Christian faith without love are dead letters, not even worth spelling out.

We do not have to wait for the hereafter — it is now that we are one with Christ.

Lord, give bread to the hungry, and hunger for you to those who have bread.

Faith sees God's face in every human face.

The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.

Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.

When we reach the silver sands and plunge into the great sea of God's silence, we begin to understand that he alone is God — Lover, Friend, the totality of gentleness, peace and rest. He calls us and we cannot resist that call. We have to be alone with him. It is a necessity, it is a hunger. It has been said that prayer is a hunger. But this Christ walks with loneliness and rejection, and so must we.

To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.

To be simple is to accept the essence of the message and not try to twist it or adapt it to our own ideas. To be simple we must desire to remain in the image of God. We must not be so complex that we make God into our image! Simplicity is dying to self, an emptying.

It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.

Sometimes, in pentecostal gatherings, we treat prophecy too lightly. We don't seem to realize the agony of a prophet. Truly, there is no prophet who hasn't experienced agony.

God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation and who don't try to "tear at the hem of a mystery" forcing disclosure.

A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

You live between two Masses. You exist in the present moment.