October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

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

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.