God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify.

What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.