Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.