If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us.

Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.