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

If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin. If we are content to give them a cold impersonal 'charity' that is merely a matter of obligation, we will not trouble to understand them or to sympathize with them at all. And in that case we will not really love them, because love implies an efficacious will not only to do good to others exteriorly but also to find some good in them to which we can respond."

For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You.

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.