Michel Quoist Quotes

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.

We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.

If we knew how to listen to God, we would hear him speaking to us. For God does speak. He speaks in his Gospels. He also speaks through life — that new gospel to which we ourselves add a page each day.

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.