Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.

If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.

It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.

All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.