Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

If you understood him, it would not be God.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.