God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.