Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

The Devil invented gambling.