“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.”

Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you’ve been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.

We know that God works for all things together for the good of those who love Him and that God is faithful. We will fail God, we will fail our family and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.

The decisions we make dictate the schedules we keep. The schedules we keep determine the lives we live. The lives we live determine how we spend our souls. So, this isn’t just about finding time. This is about honoring God with the time we have.

I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don’t have, or be thankful for what i do have

But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.