It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to me.
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.
Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.
The root of war is fear.
We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.
Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being’s awareness of itself in us.
A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to ‘like’ one another. Love governs the will: ‘liking’ is a matter of sense and sensibility. Nevertheless, if we really love others it will not be too hard to like them also.
Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.
Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.
If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one’s neighbor.
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.