Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

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

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

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

All love craves unity.