Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.

You learn to love by loving.

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when our life ends, after which there will be only joy, only contentment, only eternal consolation.

There are many who want me to tell them of secret ways of becoming perfect and I can only tell them that the sole secret is a hearty love of God, and the only way of attaining that love is by loving. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art.

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.