To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.

Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you'll be faithful.

For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

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

You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities of human life. He waits for us everyday, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fileds, in the home and in all the immense panorama of work.

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

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