Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

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