Kathryn Hulme

“The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a human world is based on seeing each other's point of view.”

“Convent life is a perpetual warfare, but it is a warfare in which the soul is ever victorious.”

“Humility is truth. It is the truth of what you are, a creature of God.”

“She learned the first, the great, the underlying principle of the life of a professed religious: obedience. To be told what to do and to do it.”

“It was one thing to believe in God, and another to be in love with Him.”

“I will never be able to go back to the world, but I am not of the convent.”