The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

Whose silence are you?

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.