Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

History is a story written by the finger of God.