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

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

Today will never come again.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.