What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.

What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.