“You cannot please both God and the world at the same time. They are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions.”

“The saints did not all begin well, but they ended well.”

"When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun."

“This is the glorious duty of man: to pray and to love. If you pray and love, that is where a man’s happiness lies.”

“Prayer is nothing else but union with God… In this intimate union, God and soul are fused together like two bits of wax that no one can ever pull apart.”

“Ah! If we had the eyes of angels with which to see our Lord Jesus Christ present on the Altar and looking at us, how we should love Him!”

"It is in loving the cross that we find true peace, not running from it.”

“Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire, it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.”

“There is no better way to experience the good God than to find him in the perfect sacrifice of the Mass.”

“You do not need to wallow in guilt. Wallow in the mercy of God.”