It is wonderful, my Lord, to be alone in my cell and converse there with you in the silence of the night – and you are there as God, and by your grace. But to stay in my cell when I could be before the Blessed Sacrament – why, it would be as though St. Mary Magdalene had left you on your own when you were at Bethany to go and think about you alone in her room!
Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916)