In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

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.

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.

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