The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.