Humility is attentive patience.

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Renunciation is submission to time.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.