Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

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

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.

All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.