All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.

One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.