Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn’t have come where you now are.
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to “rejoice” as much as by anything else.
Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.
I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which ‘permits, invites, or compels’ good reading.
One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.
I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it – made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.
When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
I want God, not my idea of God.
Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.
Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.
Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.