Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our souls, but the manifest forgiveness by which we have mercy on one another and so give expression to the fact that He is living, by His mercy, in our own hearts.

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.