You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.