This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.
Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows himself to me, I will have Peace, and He will be near me and in me, and I will rest in Him.
True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.
There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.
What I do is live, how I pray is breathe, what I wear is pants.
The end of the world will be legal.
Love is an intensification of life.