“The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.”

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.

The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.

Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory.

If you are in danger, if your hearts are confused, turn to Mary; she is our comfort, our help; turn towards her and you will be saved.

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.

I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity.

They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.

In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.

Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love.

Difficult times don’t come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.