Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
Monastic incarceration is castration.
Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.