You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

If you understood him, it would not be God.

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.