God gives where he finds empty hands.

If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.