The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.

A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

My children, if you desire perseverance, be devout to our Blessed Lady.

Only in duality consciousness we witness this-that thing. In reality, a unity consciousness runs as the very soul of every little thing.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered by the flight, you are impatient to get out and sample the streets, the life, the action.

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

Being a child is in itself a profession.

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

I dare not ask a kiss; I dare not beg a smile; Lest having that or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air, That lately kissed thee.