We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.

Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.