Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

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

The music of the Gospel leads us home.

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

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

For right is right, since God is 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