If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.
Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.
I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.
The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.
We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
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.