We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!

....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is getting something. The truth is doing us good. The truth of the sunshine, the truth of the rain, the truth of the fresh air, the truth of the wind in the trees, these are truths. And they are always accessible!

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?