We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.