Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.