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

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

All actual life is encounter.

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.