"With God’s fiat the world was created; but with Mary’s fiat God himself became man, and the lost world was saved."

"The more helpless matters are, so much the more should we trust in God."

"We cannot live on sugar alone however agreeable it might be to the taste..."

"These two ways are exemplified by two kinds of birds: one makes use of its feet to spring up into the air – its natural...

"Let us not forget that our great and only work is not, as some imagine, to copy some ideal model which however beautiful it may...

"What is the end of man? That which will satisfy him? Will riches, pleasures, travels, society or knowledge? There is no truth in life except...

"It is the will of God that each one of us seeks to find his vocation and to follow it with fidelity. To know our...

"God in commanding us to love Him with our whole heart, mind, soul and strength only enjoined upon us to seek our highest and greatest...

"We must seek and possess interior freedom at any price; this is the first condition of all success in the spiritual life."

"A saint is all through and all over heroic. The saint leaves nothing unconquered except the unconquerable God; and in a manner conquers God by...

"The soul is at home in God as a man under his own roof, or a babe is in the arms of its mother."

"It is the delight of God to dwell with the children of men. God’s dwelling place is our soul; but we turn Him out by...