Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must come to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share
“Soeur Marie Emelie" Soeur Marie Emelie is little and very old: her eyes are onyx, and her cheeks vermilion, her apron wide and kind and cobalt blue. She comforts generations and generations of children, who are "new" at the convent school. When they are eight, they are already up to her shoulder, they grow up and go into the world,… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share
I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not be God's idea of how He wants us to be at all. That may be something quite different that we never would have thought of, and what seems like a failure to us may really be something bringing… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share
The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly. — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
“God abides in men" "God abides in men, These are men who are simple, they are fields of corn... Such men have minds like… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
There is no way of learning of God except through the adventure of our own heart. — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down. — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe,… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear. — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
