God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love.
There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful for God.
Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.
Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. - C.S. Lewis
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. - C.S. Lewis
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. - C.S. Lewis
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. - C.S. Lewis
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. - C.S. Lewis
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. - C.S. Lewis
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. - C.S. Lewis
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