Humility is attentive patience.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.