If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

To believe in God is to give your heart to God.

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.