Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.