In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.