If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness