The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world and forming young souls capable of happiness and love, souls capable of sanctification and transformation in Christ.