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

Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.