The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.