No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.