Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

Fear narrows the little entrance of our hearts. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.

Our real journey in life is interior.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.