The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.

Our real journey in life is interior.

The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.