Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.

The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.