Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

Love is a special way of being alive.

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

Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.

The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done

And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.