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.

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

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

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.

The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, "I want to love, I want to live.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.