Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world.

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.

I'm always challenged by someone.

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back. It's never stable; it's a permanent discussion about finding a way back.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.