Caryll Houselander Quotes

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• We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless…
• We are only syllables of the perfect Word.
• By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take…
• 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…
• 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, the…
• God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.
• We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow…
• It is a time of darkness, of faith. We shall not see Christ's radiance in our lives yet; it is still hidden in our darkness;…
• Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his…
• Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children…
• The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may…
• 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…
• Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in…
• In every passerby, everywhere - Christ . . . He is in everyone - there can be no outcasts.
• The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the…
• Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you…
• Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
• Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the…
• The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

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