It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.

You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.

We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.