I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.