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HERE is a rule for everyday life: Do not anything which you cannot offer to God.
- On Dancing (C.)
WHEN you hear Mass, do you come in the same frame of mind as the Blessed Virgin
at Calvary? Because it is the same God, and the same Sacrifice.
- Sermon on Good Friday
THOSE who do not pray stoop towards the earth like a mole trying
to make a hole to hide itself in.
- Catechism on Prayer (Sp.)
DEVOTION gains much more in influence when it is practiced by the men.
- On serving God (M.)
GOD loves us more than the best of fathers, and more tenderly than the
most devoted of mothers. We have only then to abandon ourselves
to His Will with the heart of a child.
- Precept (D.)
A GOOD religious complained one day: "O Lord, what have I done
to be treated thus?" Our Lord answered him: "And I, what had
I done when I was led to Calvary?"
- Catechism on Suffering (Sp.)
OH! if we could rightly understand how Jesus Christ loves to come
into our heart!
- Eucharistic Meditation 10.