“In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.”

“I don't see how any degree of faith can exclude the dismay, since Christ's faith did not save Him from dismay in Gethsemane. We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

“For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.”

“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”

“The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.”

“Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.”

“It is much easier to pray for a bore than to go visit him.”