Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.