God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.