Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more than yesterday I want to try to prove it.' But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did.

There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.