Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.