"The community does not suffer deficiencies. What is lacking in one individual is made up by the other."

"The modern world, more than in any preceding epoch, feels the necessity to learn anew how to pray."

"A ladder is the instrument of ascent; it symbolises intensity rising to a climax. this, too, is the meaning of prayer."

"There are three kinds of forces: the forces of nature, the spiritual and moral ones, and finally those of history and…"

"It is only in the period between adolescence and maturity and not during the earlier stages of development that any o…"

"I desire, if by any possibility I should become a priest, to be a missionary, and if I am a missionary to be a martyr."

"Persecution is upon us; it will be terrible; we will pass through torrents of blood."

"France must have the blood of the pure to raise her again; which one of us indeed, is worthy to offer his life, and w…"

"The King, with whom I had this Discourse, was so affected with the Truth of it, that, You are in the right, said he t…"

"The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the …"