I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?

A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true human and happy life, for it is filled with concerns that are as deep as life, as wide as the whole world, and as far reaching as eternity. It is only when we have consented to love, and have agreed to forget ourselves, that we can find our fulfillment. This fulfillment will come unperceived and mysterious like the grace of God, but we will recognize it and it will be recognized in us.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

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

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.