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

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

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

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin. If we are content to give them a cold impersonal 'charity' that is merely a matter of obligation, we will not trouble to understand them or to sympathize with them at all. And in that case we will not really love them, because love implies an efficacious will not only to do good to others exteriorly but also to find some good in them to which we can respond."