It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

If you do not pray, everything can disappoint you by going wrong. If you do pray, everything can still go wrong, but not in a way that will disappoint you.

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a film, a broadcast, or a conversation with someone who can impart it.

The patients who constantly feel their pulse are not getting any better.

What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

In the beginning there was only Darkness.

I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

This is a combo between Taco and Burrito, nacho!

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.

To love another person is to help them love God.

I can convert anyone.