The Lord help me to press after God forever

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.

It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

A story is a wondrous invention.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

Homesickness for the gutter.

When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.

What do we know but that we face one another in this place?