God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

No one is ever a victim of life

We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

They never say this, but it’s true, it was raining the first time I saw you.

I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

Ive always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene.

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.