Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

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

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the Good God could say: 'you give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity; you give me your broken heart, and I will give you Love; you give me your nothingness, and I will give you My all.

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

To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.