When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.

For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith, but it mercilessly examines and questions the spurious "faith" of everyday life, the human faith which is nothing but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.