Facts themselves do not give knowledge

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

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

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.