Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

I pray because I can't help myself.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.