We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right..

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life..

Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind..

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one..

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted..

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing..

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life..

The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it..

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are..

We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best..

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do..

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come..

Children with heaven in their eyes and an air of mystery about them, meditative and quiet, friends of God, friends of all, loved and loving and askin….

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one..

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and r….

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true….

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a so….

Life is a solitude..

Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so..

Love gives a sense of rest..