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.

Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.

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

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

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

The gate of heaven is everywhere.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.