"On this earth, love is the fullest participation in the life of heaven." #JacquesPhilippe #InteriorFreedom

"Hope is the virtue of people who know they are infinitely weak and easily broken, and rely firmly on God with utter trust." #JacquesPhilippe #InteriorFreedom #Hope

"Christians are not people who follow a set of rules. Christians are, first and foremost, people who believe in God, hope for everything from him, and want to love him with all their hearts and to love their neighbors." #JacquesPhilippe #InteriorFreedom #LoveGod #LoveEachOther

"The Gospel expresses a 'law' that is part and parcel of being human: those who refuse to forgive, who refuse to love, will sooner or later be victims of their own lack of love. The evil we do to or wish on others will end up turning against us." #JacquesPhilippe #InteriorFreedom

"When we foster resentment toward someone, we can't stop thinking about him. We are filled with negative feelings that absorb a large part of our energy, and so there is an 'investment' in that relationship that does not leave us available...for what we should be concentrating on." #JacquesPhilippe

"A refusal to forgive also binds us to the person we resent, and diminishes or destroys our freedom." #JacquesPhilippe #InteriorFreedom

"No circumstance in the world can ever prevent us from believing in God, from placing our trust in him, from loving him with our whole heart, or from loving our neighbor." #JacquesPhilippe #InteriorFreedom #PrayForAmerica

"Every Christian needs to discover that even in the most unfavorable outward circumstances, we possess within ourselves a space of freedom that nobody can take away because God is its source and guarantee." #JacquesPhilippe #InteriorFreedom

"Hearts anxious about tomorrow cannot be open to the grace of the present moment." #JacquesPhilippe #InteriorFreedom #PrayForAmerica

"Our only real security...is that God's mercy is unlimited." #JacquesPhilippe #Faith #Hope #Love #Mercy