It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

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.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.