Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.