It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.