Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ.

Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.