A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.