Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

If you have love you will do all things well.

It seems to me that the darkness that has troubled you ... comes from one very serious source. Without wanting to be in conflict with the truth and with the will of God, we are actually going against God's will and His teaching.

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, according to our limitations, judging our acts not in the light of our own illusions, but in the light of His reality which is all around us in the things and people we live with.