People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.

O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.