Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world and forming young souls capable of happiness and love, souls capable of sanctification and transformation in Christ.

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. It is pure affection, and filled with reverance for the solitude of others. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.