Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature.
O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?
No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
