Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.