"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."
"The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable."
"The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself."
"There is priest's courage just as there is the courage of a colonel of dragoons...ours must be quiet."
"I was not put into this world to preserve my life but to protect souls."
"And after all, in this house what have we to fear? There is always Someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here."
"Peaceful in his solitude, adoring, matching the tranquility of the heavens with the tranquility of his own heartbeat, ravished in the shadows by the visible and invisible splendours of God, he opened his spirit to the thoughts coming from the Unknown."
"He did not scrutinize God but let his eyes be dazzled."
"Men of genius from the boundless depths of abstraction and pure speculation, situated as it were above dogma, propose their theories to God. Their prayers audaciously invite discussion. Their worship poses questions."
"But we can no more pray too much than we can love too much."
"He was concerned only to find for himself and inspire in others the best means of comfort and relief."
"...yielding to that mysterious power which said to him, 'reflect,' as two thousand years before, it had said to another condemned man, 'take up Thy Cross.'"
"...he could achieve sanctity in the eyes of God only by returning to degradation in the eyes of men."
"Thus he strove in torment as another man had striven 1800 years before him, the mysterious Being in whom were embodied all the saintliness and suffering of mankind. He too while the olive leaves quivered around Him, had again and again refused the terrible cup of darkness urged upon Him beneath a sky filled with stars."
"Laughter is a sun that drives out winter from the human face."
