The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.

You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

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.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.