Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength.

Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age.

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.