The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.

If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved.

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary

The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

and the wind gathered the leaves as a mother gathers her children and blew them irrevocably, lovingly, into the haunted wildness

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

We've been like that all season. They're starting to have the vision I've been asking them to have for a while. Our settled, normal offense stuff, we need to work on that.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.