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

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

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.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.