God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.