"Love is most likely to spring from another's need for us, and the fact of spending ourselves for another always gener…"

"Christ is among us His heart like a rose expanding within us . . ."

"God's will for you is to serve him, in his way, as he chooses now. It is only a want of humility to think of extreme …"

"We go through life with dark forces within us and around us, haunted by the ghosts of repudiated terrors and embarras…"

"It seems a law of fallen nature that life must always come to its being through darkness, and this makes us even more…"

"To surrender all that we are, as we are, to the spirit of love in order that our lives may bear Christ into the world…"

"The beginning of human happiness, and even of human sanity, is to begin to know God . . . Goodness draws the human so…"

"Lift up your eyes and see the star!"

"The one essential for sanctity is the capacity to love."

"The one thing she [Mary] did and does is the one thing that we all have to do, namely, to bear Christ into the world."