Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself.

Run while you have the light of life!

The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

In the rare air of that altitude he forgot he was he. One way or another that was the aim of life. Shamans flew outside the self in ecstasy. Other people found love, or causes.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with grace.