God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.

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.

I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.

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.

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

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.