We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer. The world of silence in which I am immersed contributes to my prayer.

God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.