 We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. |
| The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. |
| Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. |
| A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. |
| The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. |
| We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. |
| The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. |
| By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. |
| The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. |
| We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. |
| Perhaps I am stronger than I think. |
| The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. |
| We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. |
| In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. |
| Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. |
| Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. |
| I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. |
| Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. |
