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.

It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.

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

All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

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

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

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.