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

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

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

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

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.

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together