Occupation: Writer Birth: September 29, 1901 Death: October 12, 1954
Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his l….
Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself ….
God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear..
We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless we take Him to them. None of ….
I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not be God's idea of how He wants us to b….
Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the ….
Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is not….
The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocki….
By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could….
The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ..
Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh a….
Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing throug….
The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may say this ….
We are only syllables of the perfect Word..
We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow aware of His presence in u….
We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us t….
In every passerby, everywhere - Christ . . . He is in everyone - there can be no outcasts..
There is no way of learning of God except through the adventure of our own heart..
It is a time of darkness, of faith. We shall not see Christ's radiance in our lives yet; it is still hidden in our darkness; nevertheless, we must be….
Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother'….
It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come….