Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

Communication works for those who work at it.

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.