An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

I not only have a body; I am this body.