Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.