Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife
If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe but yourself
God the Father gathered all the waters together and called them the seas. He gathered all His grace together and called it Mary
In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses