In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.

When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

True friendship is never serene.

Events don’t make a person interesting. It’s who they are and what’s inside them that makes them interesting.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!

The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

Some days success just means not giving up.