We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

Faith is a gift of God. Without it there would be no life. And our work, to be fruitful, and to be all for God, and to be beautiful, has to be built of faith. Faith in Christ who has said, I was hungry, I was naked, I was sick, and I was homeless, and you ministered to me! On these words of His all our work is based.

Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.

Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.