“Are you expecting God to fill your needs? Are you asking him to do so - regularly, earnestly and persistently?”

“They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.”

“We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.”

“Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.”

“Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own hearts.”

“How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?”

“Joanna (Lady of Wales): Mama… why do I not look like you? Why do I have hair black like a crow?
Clemence: Because you take after him. That was all I asked of God, that I need not see him each time I looked into your face. Little enough to ask, I should think. But we do pay and pay for our sins, it seems, and you grow more like him with each day that passes.”

“When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.”

“I so want you to realise this principle of working with God and asking Him for everything. If the work is at the command of God, then we can go to Him in full confidence for workers; and when God gives the workers, we can go to Him for means to supply their needs.”

“If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.”