Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures and ambitions has no foundation. I am objectified in them. But they are all destined by their very contingency to be destroyed. And when they are gone there will be nothing left of me but my own nakedness and emptiness and hollowness, to tell me that I am a mistake.

If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.

The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.

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