God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!
Caryll HouselanderThe love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
Caryll HouselanderWe 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.
Caryll HouselanderMost people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.
Caryll Houselander