One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.