What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructiveto be bitter.

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose ... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

The prayer of faith is the only kind that is real prayer, and it is trust in God with full acknowledgment of God's power and love.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians. [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]

Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Tend your own garden: savor the blossoms, trim the weeds.

... we cannot rule out the possibility that the changes of recent decades are part of a natural rebound from the 'Little Ice Age' that followed the medieval warm period and ended in the 19th century.

God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.