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

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.

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

Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.