David Given Schwarm

It is God you are looking for. Your unhappiness is not due to your want of fortune, or high position, or fame, or sufficient vitamins; it is due not to want of something outside you, but to a want of something inside you.

You think you are having a good time, but time really is the greatest obstacle in the world to happiness, not only because it makes you take pleasures successively, but also because you are never really happy until you are unconscious of the passing of time.

Pleasure is of the body; joy is of the mind and heart.

Oh, what greater assurance is there in all the world of the mercy of god? Lost sheep, prodigal sons, broken Magdalens, penitent Peters, forgiven thieves! Such is the rosary of Divine forgiveness.

Heaven is a city on a hill, hence we cannot coast into it; we have to climb. Those who are too lazy to mount can miss its capture as well as the evil who refuse to see it.

The only difference between a sinner and a saint is found in their attitude toward their sins–the one persisting in them; the others weep bitterly.

Our personal dispositions are as windowspanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.