Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.

A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

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

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

The root of war is fear.