Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love - which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, 'How can I please God?' and, 'Why am I not better?' It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

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

All our anxieties relate to time.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!