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.

When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

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.

I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.