How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

Humility is the surest sign of strength.

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.