Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.