When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
The sign of the cross is the most terrible weapon against the devil. Thus the Church wishes not only that we have it continually in front of our minds to recall to us just what our souls are worth and what they cost Jesus Christ, but also that we should make it at every juncture ourselves: when we go to bed, when we awaken during the night, when we get up, when we begin any action, and, above all, when we are tempted.
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.
In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not Christian patience. But to humbly submit because it is the will of God to inflict the trial, to be silent because the sovereignty of God orders it - is true godly patience.
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.
God is either cruel or incompetent.