Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us at the moment the strength and courage that we need.

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.