David Given Schwarm

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers in Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is…

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles, and in the right way.

The fundamental reason for loneliness is that man today has divorced himself from both love of God and the love of neighbor.

With the crib as a tabernacle and the child as a kind of host, the home becomes a living temple of God. The sacristan of that sanctuary is the mother, who never permits the tabernacle lamp of faith to go out.

The life of a bishop should be more perfect than the life of a hermit. He gave because the monk preserves holiness in the desert and must be preserved by the bishop amid the world’s evil.