The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.

Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.