The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Love turns work into rest.

In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.

...Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself...

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

Hope is enthusiastic anticipation.

The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software.

You shouldn’t be placing hope in our lives, Parvin. That’s my point. I don’t know the answers of the future, but your confidence and hope need to be in God.

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don't even let go. It lets go of itself.

I feel very lucky to be part of this amazing show [Exorcist] with such an amazing cast of actors, with a really talented writer behind it all.

It's important to find a team where you can be comfortable. I know there are a lot of high expectatons.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

The act is judged of by the event.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

I'm a very humble person. I don't rub salt in people's wounds and I'm genuine.