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

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.

The root of war is fear.

I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.