Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a film, a broadcast, or a conversation with someone who can impart it.

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.