Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.

The biggest disease in North America is busyness.

It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is not to pray, but to go directly to God. . . . The fact is, though, that if you descend into the depths of your own spirit and arrive somewhere near the center of what you are, you are confronted with the inescapable truth that, at the very root of your existence, you are in constant and immediate contact with the infinite power of God.