In Haiti just as in England, Spain, Italy, or India — there are unhappy people everywhere.

"Mature" Christians, who have truly become children of God, are those who have experienced their radical nothingness, their absolute poverty, been reduced to nothing.

The devil knows that the soul whose heart is fixed on God is lost to hell, so he must drag the gaze back from God to self.

God deliver you from the peace of many kinds that worldly people have.  

Our lives are worth what our prayer is worth.

What the world most needs today is prayer.

In one respect the cross does have a terrible aspect that we ought not to remove...

It is neither the spirit alone nor the body alone that loves: it is man, the person, a unified creature composed of body and soul, who loves.

There is a widespread but mistaken idea that holiness is the work of human beings: that what we need is to have a clear program of perfection, set to work with courage and patience, and achieve it little by little.

This year I've learned a whole new set of harder lessons about NFP and the full meaning of Openness To Life.