In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.

The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.