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

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.

There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.

Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.

For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.