No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever.

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.

Faith is a beam radiating from the face of God.

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

A man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus Christ.

The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion.

Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!

Every Saint belongs to the court of the Queen of All Saints.

Decision is the wing that makes dreams to go and grow and flow and fly. No decision, no fulfilled destiny!

He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...

I don't want to say something and walk away, I want to wake you up and walk with you to achieve your dreams

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.