Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal 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.

We are what we believe we are!

You cannot win a war outside until you have won the war that you are fighting inside you first.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?

Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.

It just supports my personal opinion that he's a wacko