[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.