The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.

We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.

In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers.

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.