What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

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.

You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'

The greatest evil is physical pain.

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.