Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.