In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

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

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.