If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

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!

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

The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.