Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

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.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.