The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.

If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.

The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.