God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.
I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it shall receive eternal rest in heaven.
Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.
Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.
The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.
No tongue is able to declare the greatness of the love that Jesus bears to every soul: and therefore this Spouse, when he would leave this earth, in order that his absence might not cause us to forget him, left us as a memorial this Blessed Sacrament, in which he himself remained; for he would not that there should be any other pledge to keep alive our remembrance of him than he himself.
The negative is just as important as the positive.
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
In the past, the U. S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.