I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet.