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, ….

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!.

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

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….

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….

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others..

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….

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

Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with hi….

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory..

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

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves..

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long..

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

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….

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

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. ….

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

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..