A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.