When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

'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.

You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.

You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there is no other time, say it in the street without letting anybody notice it. It will, moreover, help you to have presence of God.

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

We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.