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My growth depends on my walls coming down.
You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
The business and method of mysticism is love.
Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.
The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.
It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.
Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.
Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!
I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.
It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.
The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.