When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.

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

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.

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

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes