We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self.

Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do.

How truly blessed we shall be if at the price of even very great sacrifices we shall have made God known and loved by one more soul!

You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.

If humility is always desirable, generous humility is still more so.

The dear Lord has favored us with a share of His cross. The greatest and undoubtedly the hardest to bear is the lack of success in our work here. If a saint had been in charge, all would have gone well.

He who has Jesus has everything.