Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself.

Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.