Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who should seek him sincerely, and that he has nevertheless so disguised them that he will only be perceived by those who seek him with all their heart.

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.