Preach the Gospel, use words when necessary.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.