Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.

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.

The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

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

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

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

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable