Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

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.

And when I feelthe masks beneathcrumble and fade withtime I build new onesto replace the old."Masks"- Sins Within

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves... He must have the passion of a lover.

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

[On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.

My style is forever changing.