Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.
A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass.
The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.
If you have love you will do all things well.
Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
For me to be a saint means to be myself.
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.
The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.
In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.
If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.
What we have to be is what we are.
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to “like” one another.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.