Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.