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

Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

The goal of fasting is inner unity.

If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.