Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

Take more time, cover less ground.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.