‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may meanI myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.