Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.