Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.

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.

A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.