The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us.

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world and forming young souls capable of happiness and love, souls capable of sanctification and transformation in Christ.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

What we have to be is what we are.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.