Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.