To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.