There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking..

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty..

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to lo….

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God..

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost it….

We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone….

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also impl….

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory..

Kind words are the music of the world..

We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. ….

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!.

Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be….

Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather round it, and group them….

The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from heaven. Our na….

Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word..

Now are the days, of humblest prayer, When consciences to God lie bare, And mercy most delights to spare. Oh hearken when we cry. Now is the season, ….

He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the Blessed Sacrament. Every one who has….

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of w….

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any..

Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten..