“Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.”

If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

Friendship requires great communication.

Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.

Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself…If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes … you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

Be who you are and do that well.

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

You learn to love by loving.

The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other – in balance with it… The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.