The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must pass beyond everything that can be seen and enter into darkness. Since nothing that can be heard is God, to find Him we must enter into silence. Since God cannot be imagined, anything our imagination tells us about Him is ultimately a lie and therefore we cannot know Him as He really is unless we pass beyond everything that can be imagined and enter into an obscurity without images and without the likeness of any created thing.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.