All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

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

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

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

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.