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

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.

We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

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

The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches.