The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?

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

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

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

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

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