Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Science is not wisdom.
The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master’s will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.
Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.
Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child’s mind, he does not understand teaching.
There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.
A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.
To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.