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

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

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

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But if I am true to the concept that God utters in me, if I am true to the thought of Him that I was meant to embody, I shall be full of his actuality and find him everywhere in myself, and find myself nowhere.