Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

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.

Calculation never made a hero.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet sweetly; it was the Blessed Sacrament - it was the Lord Incarnate who was on the altar, who had come to visit and bless his people. It was the Great Presence, which makes a Catholic Church different from every other place in the world; which makes it, as no other place can be - holy.