O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.

Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.

If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is.

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.