The devil loves and always rejoices over the ungoverned; those who are not subject to one who has power, under God, to help them and to give them a hand.

If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

The more one is united to his neighbor the more he is united to God.

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.

Let us be convinced that nothing can happen to us apart from the providence of God.

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

The grace of God comes swiftly to the soul when endurance is no longer possible.

In the measure that we pay attention and take care to carry out what we hear, God will always enlighten us and make us understand His will.

In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.

Even if we cannot endure much labor because we are weak let us be set on humbling ourselves.

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

A perpetual world

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.

Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

I'm a person that if I'm hooked with something then I know nothing besides that.

There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

There aren't going to be many easy nights at all. There are going to be a lot of people beating up on each other. The pitching of the White Sox and Twins is exceptional.

The church has been under-fathered and over-mothered.

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.