Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

God is not free from human beings but for them.

Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.