To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.