In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.

Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.