This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

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.

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

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