The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.
If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved.
If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.
Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.
The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works
I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.
The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.
I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.
Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary
We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times.
Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise
Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!
The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.
God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of any passion, would be filled with envy at his lot.
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.