Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

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

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?

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.