Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.