Birth: January 10, 1815 Death: January 18, 1894
But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted..
A soul untried by sorrows is good for nothing..
If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it passed you by ….
The object of our serch is the fire of grace which enters into the heart..
The Lord chose the apostles, that they should be with Him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses, and to ….
"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves..
To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you..
The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order to return us to this divine communi….
If you want to attain salvation, learn and keep in your heart all that the holy Church teaches and, receiving heavenly power from the mysteries of th….
Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-an….
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the body and makes the so….
As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the c….
Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When at first you succe….
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize tha….
The goal of human freedom is not in freedom itself, nor it is in man, but in God. By giving man freedom, God has yielded to man a piece of His Divine….
Remember that each of us has his own cross. The Golgotha of this cross is our heart: it is being lifted or implanted through a zealous determination ….
Every Christian is chosen-chosen for similar deeds, namely: to be with the Lord, through unceasing remembrance of Him and awareness of His omnipresen….
The invincible weapon against all our enemies is humility..