God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

Silence is God's first language.

All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.