Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves.