Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.

The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.

Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.