For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.

I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.

It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns.

Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness