For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.
He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Finding God in All Things.
Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan’s temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he’ll have an incentive to leave you alone.
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever. God’s purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven.
If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.
Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.
The glory of God is humankind fully alive.
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
Discouragement is not from God.
Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one’s life, without being influenced in one’s decision by any inordinate affection.
You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.