Great saints are never wimps.

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.