“All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.”

The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?

There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

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.

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

Let us honor the Holy Ghost.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.

I will not believe It’s less holy to be human. I will not bow my head. I will not close my eyes to god.

I know that you are annoyed with me because of how holy you are and because your sacrifice has not made me holy, too.

Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.