Ah Lord! Be thou in all our being; as not in the Sundays of our time alone, so not in the chambers of our hearts alone.

Do you count it a great faith to believe what God has said? It seems to me a little faith, and, if alone, worthy of reproach. To believe what he has not said is faith indeed...

—“In everything,” says St. Paul, “by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.” For this everything, nothing is too small.

He is not afraid of your presumptuous approach to him. It is you who are afraid to come near him. He is not watching over his dignity. It is you who fear to be sent away as the disciples would have sent away the little children. 

The danger lies, not in asking from God what is not good, nor even in hoping to receive it from him, but in not asking him, in not having him of our council.

A man will please God better by believing some things that are not told him, than by confining his faith to those things that are expressly said...

It is Christ “in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge,” not the Bible, save as leading to him.

But to the man who would live throughout the whole divine form of his being, a thousand questions will arise to which the Bible does not even allude. “Leave them,” says the dull disciple. “I cannot,” returns the man.