We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.

Simplicity is freedom.

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.