In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.

The root of all evil is 'I', 'Me' , 'Mine'.

Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.

Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry

The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.

Pray with perseverance, with faith, with calmness and serenity.

If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!

Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.

Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.

Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.

It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play.

I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.