People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.

None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God — acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him.

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.