No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.