Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.