One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.

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

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

The future stands in need of you in order to be born.

When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.