What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.

Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.

You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.