For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel..

You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God ….

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man..

The great men of antiquity were poor..

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that..

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and t….

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else..

There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, wit….

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened..

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness..

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world..

It is not a slight thing, gentlemen, to force a man to say what he is, or what he believes himself to be; for that supreme word of man, that single e….

Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever….

A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected t….

Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a ….

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates in….

Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest that if the designs of creation have not here bel….

The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it his permanent action, the scene upon which his powe….

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything..

Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church a….

As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to pun….