“If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.”

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.

The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God’s honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

Finding God in All Things.

Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.

He who is not getting better is getting worse.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord’s sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

By simple common sense I don’t believe in God, in none.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.