Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.