Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

For it is in giving that we receive.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.