“Chainschains that hold me to the groundchains that keep me solidly boundchains that tether my heart to youchains that only one truth…”

“At this point, Chiara said ‘Well, even if I ask Him for a cure – and I am asking Him – perhaps God knows what I truly want.’Chiara was like the man born blind, God’s work was appearing in her. (cf John 9:1-38)’With these words,’ Enrico explained, ‘Chiara was revealing to me that there was within her an intimacy of which she herself was not aware, that intimacy was the place where God dwells. The heart is a land we do not know well, neither its boundaries and frontiers, nor its miseries and grandeurs. In her profundity, nights and dawns were alternating, and we could discover some places only at the right moment.”

“You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don’t do…”

“I was looking for God all over, not knowing that he was residing in my heart all along.”

“Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren’t so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.”

“The truth is in the heart;out there is true darkness.”

“I was looking for God all over, not knowing he was residing in my heart all along.”

“Use truth to fight the lies. Use the heart to fight the mind.”

“We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.”

“You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.”

“My heart’s scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.”

“There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.”