The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.