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…

- Caryll Houselander

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 …

- Caryll Houselander

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…

- Caryll Houselander

God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.

- Caryll Houselander

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…

- Caryll Houselander

The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

- Caryll Houselander

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 …

- Caryll Houselander

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…

- Caryll Houselander

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…

- Caryll Houselander