For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will.

Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.

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

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.