Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.