Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.

The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.