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Almost as important as oxygen for human survival is hope. According to Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker, “Since my early years as a physician, I learned that taking away hope is, to most people, like pronounci...

This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.

Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riche...

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest

It is not possible for us to say, I will pray, or I will not pray, as if it were a question of pleasing ourselves. Prayer is a necessity, as breathing is necessary to life.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Extravagant wastefulness in time might prove the most productive thing you choose for yourself.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have r...

Even desolation is a world to be explored.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Christians... so often think they must always contribute something when they are in the company of others, that this is the one service they have to render. They forget that listening can be a greater...

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

“Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having th...

Leisure . . . is an essential part of Benedictine spirituality. It is not laziness and it is not selfishness. It has something to do with depth and breadth, length and quality of life.

One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along, that while we need to be reassured of God’s arrival, or the arrival of our homecoming, we are already a...

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one needs.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

In the midst of winter I discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

Desire, if it’s to be trusted, should be inspired by a divine vocabulary.

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Presence requires inner space, and talk about presence requires the same.

It must be remembered that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments; the greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily ...