The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

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.

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

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.

... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.

Stand tall and be proud. Realize confidence is charismatic and something that is something money can't buy, it radiates from within you.

The shrewd guess the fertile hypothesis the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently

I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.