Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.

One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.