Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.

If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.