We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

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.