Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

The person who prays and who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the word he desires to worship (in order to be more single-mindedly at the word’s disposal) will select with great care basic works for his studies which will observe the so-called exactitude of scholarship without losing sight of the most important exactitude, namely, the ordering of all thought toward prayer.

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.