If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill.

Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.

The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.

That's the position I place myself in always. I don't know. It says follow me. It pulls you right through, just by the nose.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

No, it's not love, but it's not bad.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.