It’s true he was a sinner. But don’t pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don’t forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.
If you say the Holy Rosary every day, with a spirit of faith and love, our Lady will make sure she leads you very far along her Son’s path.
If I love, there will be no hell for me.
As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.
Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.
May I give you some advice for you to put into practice daily? When your heart makes you feel those low cravings, say slowly to the Immaculate Virgin: Look on me with compassion. Don’t abandon me. Don’t abandon me, my Mother! – And recommend this prayer to others.
An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.
Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.
You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.
There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.
If you don’t have a plan of life, you’ll never have order.
You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.
God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.
Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you’ll be faithful.
To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.
We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.
Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn’t fully understand and asks about what she doesn’t know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.
Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.
There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.
Before, by yourself, you couldn’t. Now, you’ve turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!
Turn to Mary, tota pulchra, all pure and wonderful, and tell her: Our Lady and Mother, the Lord wanted you yourself to look after God and tend him with your own hands. Teach me, teach us all, how to treat your Son!