As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.

'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 go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.

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

Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!

You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

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.