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

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

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

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

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

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 wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.