There is no way of learning of God except through the adventure of our own heart.

The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another.

God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.

In every passerby, everywhere - Christ . . . He is in everyone - there can be no outcasts.

We are only syllables of the perfect Word.

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow aware of His presence in us.

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

The hunger for attention is an enemy of self-love.

It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.

I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally.

Bute coming over here is a big mistake.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.