So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.