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

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.

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

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.

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.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.