So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

What do I love when I love my God?

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.