"The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd."
"I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead."
"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."
"If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God."
"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."