Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

Only what is essential must be said.

The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.