We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.

The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.

Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.