Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.