Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

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

Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

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

Kind words are the music of the world.