The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

They always win who side with God.

He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the Blessed Sacrament. Every one who has had anything to do with ministering to souls has seen the power which Jesus has. Talent is not needed. Eloquence is comparatively unattractive. Learning is often beside the mark. Controversy simply repels... All the attraction of the Church is in Jesus, and His chief attraction is the Blessed Sacrament

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

Each hour comes with some little faggot of God's will fastened upon its back.