While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.
The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out.
Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.
You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.
He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.
I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.
I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.
Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!
True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.
The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.
A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.
Love, in fact, is the spiritual life; and without it, all other exercises of the spirit are emptied of content.
If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest, God does not bless our work.
O love-why can’t you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven’s sake, don’t.
Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.