We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

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

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.