How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.

We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

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