Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

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

We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!