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.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

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

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.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

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.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

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

Think to love

What is your name?"Why?"So I can mark your grave...

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

I am a small business owner I'm in the agri-business. That's about as blind a trust as you can get. We trust in the Lord for rain and many other things.

I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?