Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!