It might be good to open our eyes and see.
You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.
His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gifts that His mercy has previously decreed. And His mercy is His love, doing justice to its own exigencies, and renewing the gift which we had failed to accept.
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.
There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another’s solitude.
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children.
If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is “just glass.”
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.