The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.