The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.