What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

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

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

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

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.