If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.

My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.