By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.

There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

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

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!