Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.