And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer. The world of silence in which I am immersed contributes to my prayer.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God