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?

If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles you would make yourself debtor to Him, while by suffering He may become debtor to you. And even if sufferings had no other reward than being able to bear something for that God who loves you, is not this a great reward and a sufficient remuneration? Whoever loves, understands what I say.

What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.

The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.