Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

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.

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.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

Every infinity... is made finite to God.