God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts..

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you..

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation..

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation..

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth..

Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over ….

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge..

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope..

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience..

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed..

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present….

Above all, trust in the slow work of God..

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed..

The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collectiv….

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see..

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway..

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ….

No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and cons….

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed..

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth..

What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable ….