Kathryn Hulme

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

“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.”

“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.”

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