The greatest evil is physical pain.
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself – the latter in God.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will...
For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
To sing is to pray twice.
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within.
It is a sin to judge any man by his post.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.
Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.