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.

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.

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.

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

The way I saw it, one of the single greatest advantages of being in a relationship was that you got to eat off the other person's plate.

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".

God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.

What's the feeling to be lost?? What's the feeling to be scared???

It’s about recognizing that the great movements and moments in history laid on the backs of ordinary people who simply chose to do extraordinary things.

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.