The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.

The only unhappiness is not to love God.

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

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.