When you fall in love with someone's personality everything about them becomes beautiful.
Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes.
Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.
Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown. . . Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God
Angels constantly guard the clients of this Blessed Virgin from the assaults of Hell.
It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm.
I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.
I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.