To sing is to pray twice.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.