The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

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.

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.

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.