If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.
Heaven is not made for the slothful.
During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.
Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.
Believe me, there is no more powerful means to obtain God's grace than to employ the intercessions of the Holy Virgin.
Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.
At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
Time flies when you're running out of money.
That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.
To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.