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.

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.

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

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.