Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I’m often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test...

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

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

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 beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may...

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God

The will is what matters – as long as you have that, you are safe.

As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. ‘I come to seek God because I need Him’, may be an adequate formula for prayer. ‘I come to adore His splendour,...

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

Do not be scrupulous and think it selfish. You are obeying God’s call and giving Him the opportunity to teach you what He wants you to know.

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I’m tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and...

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go...

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain...

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

You don’t have to be peculiar to find God.

The business and method of mysticism is love.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

ordinary contemplation,” as the specialists call it—is possible to all men: without it, they are not wholly conscious, nor wholly alive. It is a natural human activity, no more involving the great powers and sublime...

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.