to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.

If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.