Let my soul live as if separated from my body.

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.

To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

Silence is God's first language.

Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.

Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

God leads every soul by a separate path.

Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things!

Is she a friend of yours?”“No, ” Diana said flatly. “She’s my mother.

Music is in my DNA!

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.