Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

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

God will not be outdone in generosity.

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.

In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.