We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.
Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
Donate to the extent that you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy.
For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!
I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.