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.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

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

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

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.