Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
Growth is the only evidence of life.
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.