Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

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.

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

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

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