Joy is being fully aware of reality..

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell..

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money..

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty..

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is ….

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves..

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being..

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him..

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood..

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility..

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it..

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only f….

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on..

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny ..

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that ….

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them..

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul..

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity..

All sins are attempts to fill voids..

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need..

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction..