The needed change within us is God's work, not ours. The demand is for an inside job, and only God can work from the inside. We cannot attain or earn this righteousness of the kingdom of God: it is a grace that is given.

We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.

In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.

Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.

We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong.