In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we do away with him altogether.

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."

I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.