Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

A daydream is an evasion.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.

What we have to be is what we are.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.