“… God’s providence is a mysterious and wonderful thing… One of the most potent insights of the spiritual masters is that our lives are not about us, that they are, in fact, ingredient in God’s providen-tial purposes, part of a story that stretches infinitely beyond what we can immediately grasp. Why are we suffering now? Well, it might be so that, in St. Paul’s language, we might comfort someone else with the same consolation we have received in our suffering. And that someone might be a person who has not even been born. St. John Paul II commented that, for people of faith, there are no coincidences, only aspects of God’s providence that we have not yet fully understood.”—Bishop Robert Barron
“The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.”—Alexander MacLaren