“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

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.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

The absence of him is everywhere I look.

I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?

Your absence is the loudest presence I have ever known.

All those lavenders seemed purple in love they turned lilac without him.