Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

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

A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.

By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.

May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.