Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

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.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.