In This House of Brede

by Rumer Godden

we’re not angels but humans,

both speaking English, should yet be using different languages.

‘Nowadays there’s a tendency to make everything utilitarian – even the things of the spirit,’ said Dame Clare. ‘Beware of this,’ and ‘That wasn’t the way of the saints,

‘When you have become God’s in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.

Amen!

what is really apostolic, what really speeds God’s glory,’ said Dame Ursula, ‘is not the time given to work but the holiness of the worker.’

‘We must not think only of Christ on the cross,’ she had said in the conference she had given that very afternoon. ‘We must think of him crowned and of His glory.

‘Nobody wanted us, most people were afraid of us, but the spirit was wonderful, and it was here

only by giving completely was there any hope of finding.

It is submitting your will, even when it goes against the grain; giving up your judgement and accepting your superiors’

I am the Good Shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me,’ became a living actuality for her.