God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.

The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.