Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

Be who you are and be that well.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.