The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.