Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.
Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.
It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
 shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts. )
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
Research is the highest form of adoration
In the end, only the truth will survive.
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.
In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
The farther and more deeply we penetrate into matter, by means of increasingly powerful methods, the more we are confounded by the interdependence of its parts.
The quintessential good and beauty in life is what each has to offer to others valuing the gesture ourselves into confluence with the Word of God.
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision.
I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.
For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.
As a result, man is the only successful type which has remained as a single interbreeding group or species, and has not radiated out into a number of biologically separated assemblages
