If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.