Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.

Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.

These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.