Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!