If our Savior himself has declared: “By your endurance you will gain your souls,” should it not be a man's great happiness to possess hi...

Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, t...

Human reason is very deficient in things concerning God. A sign of this is that philosophers in their researches, by natural investigation i...

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the gre...

A person who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either rule them, or be ruled by them. It is better to be the hammer than ...

As the world needs poets, priests, dancers, dreamers, artists, singers, prophets—all of them devotees of sign and symbol—so too [it needs] m...

True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite obje...