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

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

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

We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.