Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

God's providence is not in baskets lowered from the sky, but through the hands and hearts of those who love him. The lad without food and without shoes made the proper answer to the cruel-minded woman who asked, But if God loved you wouldn't he send you food and shoes? The boy replied, God told someone, but he forgot.

Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.

For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies I believe only in solo music.'

Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.