The power in which he does his works is that in which St.Paul carried through his heroic missionary career, St.Benedict formed a spiritual family that transformed European culture, Wesley made the world his parish, Elizabeth Fry faced the Newgate criminals.

It is idle to talk of the revival of a personal spiritual life among ourselves, or of a spiritual regeneration of society--for this can only come through the individual remaking of each of its members--unless we are willing, at the sacrifice of some personal convenience, to make a place and time for these acts of recollection; this willing and loving--and even more fruitful, the more willing and loving--communion with, response to Reality, to God.

It is true that a fully lived spiritual life involves far more than this.

But this is the only condition on which it will exist at all.
Love then, which is a willed tendency to God; prayer, which is willed communion with and experience of Him; are the two prime essentials in the personal life of the Spirit.

They represent, of course, only our side of it and our obligation.