To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.
Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.
Take more time, cover less ground.
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
There is in all visible things – a hidden wholeness.
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.