Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

True silence is the speech of lovers.

Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.

Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!