All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

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.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.

Happiness is

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.