The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.