“Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.

Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.

Love slandered the heart, we fumbled gracefully, we fell in love with the end from the start.

Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

I stepped into love with grace. I stepped out of love with grace. The beginning was beautiful. The ending was beautiful.

You can’t resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.