The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.

It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by books at really critical moments. That much I believe.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

You can run,” Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, “but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain