Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.