The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ.

We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow aware of His presence in us.

God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.