You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us in putting together what we have heard in church.

If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.