Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.