Vivere l'Inabitazione non è una cosa straordinaria, ma la logica conseguenza del nostro Battesimo.

To live the Inhabitation is to live one's Baptism. It would be a grave error to believe that calling souls to nourish their lives with this adorable mystery is to call them to a special "devotion": it is rather an invitation to live by the grace that Baptism has given them, to penetrate the divine reality promised to us by Jesus: Veniemus et apud eum mansionem faciemus.

Habit is a second nature.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Habit is heaven's gift to us:
a substitute for happiness.

We live in a normal apartment, just like every other citizen. We have ensured an apartment for every citizen through corresponding laws.

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

I have come to the conclusion that the bed comprehends our whole life; for we were bom in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it.

Habit to us is given from above:
it is a substitute for happiness.

Vivere l'Inabitazione è vivere il proprio Battesimo. Sarebbe un grave errore credere che il richiamare le anime a nutrire di questo mistero adorabile la loro vita, sia il richiamarle ad una "devozione" speciale: è piuttosto un invitarle a vivere della grazia che il Battesimo ha loro donato, a penetrare la realtà divina promessaci da Gesù: Veniemus et apud eum mansionem faciemus.

Our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to whether by choice or default.

Lastly, we must also know what Baptism signifies, and why God has ordained just such external sign and ceremony for the Sacrament by which we are first received into the Christian Church. But the act or ceremony is this, that we are sunk under the water, which passes over us, and afterwards are drawn out again. These two parts, to be sunk under the water and drawn out again, signify the power and operation of Baptism, which is nothing else than putting to death the old Adam, and after that the resurrection of the new man, both of which must take place in us all our lives, so that a truly Christian life is nothing else than a daily baptism, once begun and ever to be continued.