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 primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

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

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.

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