Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes.

Love is its own reward.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.