Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

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.

All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

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

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

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.