Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.