Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.

The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the glory and presence of God, and nothing is any more separated from God.

The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.