Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.