Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.