The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.

If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.

The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.

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.

One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.

Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.

Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.