Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.
When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.
It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
The human heart is always drawn by love.
O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.
The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else.
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
One who knows more, loves more.
... people become like what they love.
Love does not stay idle.
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.
