A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

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.

In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.