Prayer opens our eyes for ourselves and through clarification enables us to step forward in the direction of hope.

Divine guidance can be found in the books we read, the nature we enjoy, the people we meet, and the events we experience.

Dear Lord, Be with me today. Listen to my confusion and help me know how to live it. I don't know the words. I don't know the way. Show me the way. You are a quiet God. Help me to listen to your voice in a noisy world. I want to be with you. I know you are peace. I know you are joy. Help me to be a peaceful and joyful person. These are the fruits of living close to you. Bring me close to you, dear Lord. AMEN.

Spiritual direction as Henri understood it can be defined as a relationship initiated by a spiritual seeker who finds a mature person of faith willing to pray and respond with wisdom and understanding to his or her questions about how to live spiritually in a world of ambiguity and distraction.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.

Confucius said, To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.