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.

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

Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.

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.

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

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

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