To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.
The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.
Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength.
It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we do away with him altogether.
O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
Humility is the surest sign of strength.
Love is a special way of being alive.
There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
The biggest disease in North America is busyness.
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.
God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!
To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be able to enter into the problems and the joys of all, to understand all, to be all things to all.
The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.
Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...
Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.