For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience, as joy, as being.

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.