“God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.”

Christ moves along the pots and pans.

For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Love turns work into rest.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.

You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

If you’re still drawing breath, God’s not done with you yet. Don’t quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.

God will never send anything your way you couldn’t handle.

It’s a strange thought that sometimes God trusts us more than we trust Him. God trusts you – can you trust Him?

The safest place to be is in the center of God’s will.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Better to admit where you’re not and ask God’s help to get you where you need to be.