The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Somewhere someone else’s break-through is hinging on you simply knowing that you matter. So please, remind yourself of this truth every single day.

Life is like a test. If you get love right, you get everything else right. If you get love wrong, you fail the test.

Would you have me forever carry hate for one who is dead?

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.