The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

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

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

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.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

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