It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.