Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of heaven, no one has heard about his realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existenceDeath is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

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

The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.