If one asks: "How am I to become humble?" the immediate answer is "by the grace of God," and that is indeed the truth. 

The first means of attaining virtue, which seems the most easy, and is in reality the most difficult, is to will it; but with a sincere, entire, efficacious, and constant will.

Death fills the good man who has lived in the light of the Gospel, and who has walked in the footsteps of Jesus Christ and has satisfied divine justice by true repentance, with joy and consolation. 

Charity is universal and its obligation is always absolute. 

This preference for hiddenness, for remaining unseen, seems to have been a definite impulse of Jesus, clearly depicted on a few occasions in the Gospel. 

What mysterious power is it that a mother has over a son that, when he confesses his guilt, she strives to minimize it, even when it shocks her heart…. 

Belief in God and belief in his Church stand on the same kind of foundation.

There is an inward world into which they enter who come near to Christ, though to men in general they seem the same as before. 

If you don't have love for one another, then how can you love Christ?

I am going to assert what some persons will not hesitate to call a great paradox; but which, nevertheless, I consider to be most true...