Eugene Boylan

“There is a close connection between prayer and rest in the spiritual life. In fact, as progress is made, the distinction between them tends to disappear, and prayer overflows from the times set apart for it, and begins to penetrate the rest of the day, so that, whether in word or in work, the soul is always lifted up to God in a union of love.”
― Eugene Boylan, Difficulties in mental prayer

“Metaphysics is… at the root of all other sciences, which indeed presuppose it. It has been abandoned by the modern mind, which seems to be unable to think otherwise than with its imagination. What cannot be imagined is—according to it—impossible; what can be imagined is, therefore, capable of being and existence. From this disease of the mind, we get sentiment in place of principle in morals, the particular in place of the general in argument, metaphor in place of reality, opinion in place of certainty, prejudice in place of judgment, quantity in place of quality, matter in place of the ultimate reality, and all the whole host of false coins that are current in the intellectual commerce of today.”
― Dom Eugene Boylan, This Tremendous Lover: The Beloved Spiritual Classic on God's Pursuit of the Soul