There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.