Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

For true liberation, the only war we need to win is the war between presence and ego.

A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

Honesty is a quality Patrick likes. Give him a bitter pill if the situation demands it, but don't tell him it's chocolate.

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—