That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

The end of the world will be legal.

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.

We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.