It's one thing to see the suffering and dying on the television screen and quite another to be there and experience it. You cannot look into the eyes of a starving child and yourself remain the same. — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
We are blind: we cannot see God with our senses, and our deductions from what we know or are thinking about the word of God itself - how little power they have to bring us to God! We are blind,… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that is an… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
It is healthy to say, 'Yes, I am a sinner,' and to recognise that this should lead us to turn to God full of… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
Know how to 'cling' to him in prayer, and then you will see the face of Christ more clearly in those whom you are… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
Our response, our attitude, depends on our realisation of God's attitude toward us. If I experience love or have experienced it, this is the… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
Even though you find yourself in an intolerable position, one in which you think you have no right to be, accept it here and… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
Let us remind ourselves that if we are to be our Lord's disciples, we must take up his Cross and follow him. — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
It is not because we are drawn to prayer that we first begin to pray; more often, we have to begin prayer, and then… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
In my opinion, it is a mistake to expect in prayer a response from God. Often, God's response is outside prayer. And often, we… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person. — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
The experience of prayer when there is no awareness of God and no apparent response from ourselves should not lead us to escape from… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
