The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.

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

For me to be a saint means to be myself.

Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

Our real journey in life is interior.