What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable

A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You.

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.