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
Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God
Remember this and never forget it: even if it should seem at times that everything is collapsing, nothing is collapsing at all, because God doesn’t lose battles
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife
God the Father gathered all the waters together and called them the seas. He gathered all His grace together and called it Mary