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

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.

My best writing has always been in journals.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.