Let us not resist his first coming, so that we may not dread the second. What then should the Christian do? He ought to...

I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits...

I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To...

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)

You people of Vitebsk want to put me to death. You make ambushes for me everywhere, in the streets, on the bridges, on the...

Hitherto I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to become a soldier to God. (Saint Martin of Tours, +397)

Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive. (John 20:38)

My fellow Christians, do we wish to celebrate joyfully the birth of this temple? Then let us not destroy the living temples of God...

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or...

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness (G.K. Chesterton)