We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

Would I want to be sponsored by me?

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently.