In the beginning was the relationship.

You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.

When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.