“Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.”

It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.

It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

It’s impossible to lose your footing when you’re on your knees.

If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available.

Music just affects people’s feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.