The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

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

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

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!