The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

Love is our true destiny.

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.