Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

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.

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.

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